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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Eichelberger, Laura (Laura P.) (Editor ), Burke, Nancy Jean (Editor ), Armin, Julie (Julie S.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Anthropology, Medical.
Health Status Disparities.
Vulnerable Populations.
Patient Acceptance of Health Care.
Cancer Survivors.
Patients.
Neoplasms.
Medical anthropology.
Cancer > Social aspects.
Cancer > Patients > Care.
Medical anthropology > Case studies.
Cancer > Social aspects > Case studies.
Cancer > Patients > Care > Case studies.
Case Report.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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