Fighting for Breath : Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

Numerous reports of "cancer villages" have appeared in the past decade in both Chinese and Western media, highlighting the downside of China's economic development. Less generally known is how people experience and understand cancer in areas where there is no agreement on its cause. W...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lora-Wainwright, Anna, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013]
Temas:
Cancer > Patients > Care > Moral and ethical aspects > China > Langzhong Shi.
Cancer > Social aspects > China > Langzhong Shi.
Social history.
Neoplasms > epidemiology
Family Relations > ethnology
Patient Care > ethics
Social Conditions
Histoire sociale.
social history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Social history
Cancer > Social aspects
China
China > Langzhong Shi
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cancer and contending forms of morality
  • The evolving local moral world of Langzhong
  • Water, hard work, and farm chemicals : the moral economy of cancer
  • Gendered hardship, emotions, and the ambiguity of blame
  • Xiguan, consumption, and shifting cancer etiologies
  • Performing closeness, negotiating family relations, and the cost of cancer
  • Perceived efficacy, social identities, and the rejection of cancer surgery
  • Family relations and contested religious moralities.

Ejemplares similares