Cancer and the Politics of Care
Inequalities and Interventions in Global Perspective
$64.87
- Paperback
- Release Date
13 February 2023
Summary
An ethnographic examination of the effects of structural inequalities on cancer treatment around the world.
Taking an ethnographic approach, the contributors to this book offer new examinations of cancer and its treatment to show how social, economic, race, gender, and other structural inequalities intersect, compound, and complicate health inequalities. Cancer experiences and impacts are explored across eleven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, France, Greece, In…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800080744 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1800080743 |
| Author: | Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson, Belinda Spagnoletti |
| Publisher: | UCL Press |
| Imprint: | UCL Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Embodying Inequalities: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology |
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Critics Review
‘makes a valuable contribution to a long history of anthropological work on the diverse diseases that get called “cancer” and the variable experiences of the people who work to prevent, treat, and live with them.’ Medical Anthropology Quarterly
About The Author
Linda Rae Bennett
Linda Rae Bennett is Professor at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne. Lenore Manderson is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Belinda Spagnoletti works for the Adelaide Primary Health Network (PHN).
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