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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lora-Wainwright, Anna, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cancer > Social aspects.
Social history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
social history.
Histoire sociale.
Social Conditions
Patient Care > ethics
Family Relations > ethnology
Neoplasms > epidemiology
Cancer > Social aspects > China > Langzhong Shi.
Cancer > Patients > Care > Moral and ethical aspects > China > Langzhong Shi.
China > Langzhong Shi.
China
Electronic books.
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.

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