Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Life in perspective
  • 1. Facts, theoretical gaze, and journeys
  • 2. Sick workers as homines sacri
  • pt. II Responses to marginality
  • 3. Cadmium-poisoned women: contesting for sick role status
  • 4. Pneumoconiosis-afflicted workers: toward rightful resistance
  • 5. Sick coal miners: the compromising citizenry
  • pt. III Sick life governed
  • 6. Law as a technique of Chinese governmentality
  • 7. Conclusion: the future of Chinese marginality.