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What can case studies about the lived experiences of cancer
contribute to an interest in the concept of structural
vulnerability? And can a consideration of structural vulnerability
enhance applied anthropological work in cancer prevention and
control? To answer these questions the contributors in this volume
explore what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural
vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care
seeking, caregiving, clinical-trial participation, and
survivorship; and how differing local, national, and global
political contexts and histories inform vulnerability. These case
studies illustrate how quotidian experiences of structural
vulnerability influence and are altered by a cancer diagnosis at
various points in the continuum of care. The case studies examine
cancer as a set of diseases and biosocial phenomena. The
contributors utilize insights gained from studies on cancer to
extend structural vulnerability beyond its original
conceptualization to encompass spatiality, temporality, and
biosocial shifts in both individual and institutional arrangements.
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