Negotiating structural vulnerability in cancer control

Negotiating structural vulnerability in cancer control /

"What can case studies about the lived experiences of cancer contribute to a burgeoning 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 c...

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Other Authors: Armin, Julie (Julie S.) (Editor), Burke, Nancy Jean (Editor), Eichelberger, Laura (Laura P.) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Fe : Albuquerque : School for Advanced Research Press ; University of New Mexico Press, [2019]
Series:School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
Subjects:
Cancer > Patients > Care > Case studies.
Cancer > Social aspects > Case studies.
Medical anthropology > Case studies.
Medical care.
Medical anthropology.
Patient Care
Neoplasms
Anthropology, Medical
Case Report.
Case Reports
Case studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: framing cancer and structural vulnerability / Nancy J. Burke, Julie Armin, and Laura Eichelberger
  • Cancer and precarity: rights and vulnerabilities of West African immigrants in France / Carolyn Sargent and Peter Benson
  • Bringing the people into policy: managing cancer among structurally vulnerable women / Julie Armin
  • Anxious provocations: engagements with cancer screening by the medically underserved / Susan Shaw
  • The familiarity of coping: kinship and social location in the safety-net experience of cancer / Simon Craddock Lee
  • Connecting rural patients with urban hospitals across the cancer care continuum: a view from Vietnam on a global problem / Maria Stalford
  • Stuck in the middle: patient navigation and cancer clinical trials recruitment in the safety net / Nancy J. Burke
  • Colonial legacies: population panics, reproductive control, and cancer-related fertility care in Puerto Rico / Karen Dyer
  • The Westernization effect: biocommunicable cartographies, epidemiologic (in)visibilities, and the cancer transition theory / Laura Eichelberger
  • Afterword: revealing erasures, configuring silences: structural vulnerability in cancer prevention, treatment, and research / James Quesada.

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