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Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented
flow of health information, technologies, and people across
national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature
of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable
populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame
associated with this disease. This volume brings together
cutting-edge anthropological research carried out across North and
South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, representing low-, middle-
and high-resource countries with a diversity of national health
care systems. Contributors ethnographically map the varied nature
of cancer experiences and articulate the multiplicity of meanings
that survivorship, risk, charity and care entail. They explore
institutional frameworks shaping local responses to cancer and
underlying political forces and structural variables that frame
individual experiences. Of particular concern is the need to
interrogate underlying assumptions of research designs that may
lead to the naturalizing of hidden agendas or intentions. Running
throughout the chapters, moreover, are considerations of moral and
ethical issues related to cancer treatment and research. Thematic
emphases include the importance of local biologies in the framing
of cancer diagnosis and treatment protocols, uncertainty and
ambiguity in definitions of biosociality, shifting definitions of
patienthood, and the sociality of care and support. Chapter 3 of
this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at
www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0
license.
Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented
flow of health information, technologies, and people across
national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature
of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable
populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame
associated with this disease. This volume brings together
cutting-edge anthropological research carried out across North and
South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, representing low-, middle-
and high-resource countries with a diversity of national health
care systems. Contributors ethnographically map the varied nature
of cancer experiences and articulate the multiplicity of meanings
that survivorship, risk, charity and care entail. They explore
institutional frameworks shaping local responses to cancer and
underlying political forces and structural variables. Chapter 3 of
this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138776937_oachapter3.pdf
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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