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1 online resource (v, 191 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Waiting Time Paradox : Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times / Marie Louise Trring -- Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion : Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class / Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen -- "What if it is just hiding?" : Care Seeking in the Context of Symptom Expansion / Rikke Sand Andersen -- Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness / Camilla Hoffmann Merrild -- The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic / Benedikte Mller Kristensen -- Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work / Rikke Aarhus -- "Keeping an eye on it" : Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty / Michal Frumer -- Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters : Young Women's Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions / Stine Hauberg Nielsen. |
| Summary |
"Cancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people - potential patients as well as healthcare professionals - experience and anticipate cancer before a diagnosis or a prediction has been made. This argument compellingly challenges and augments anthropological work on cancer control that has privileged attention to the productive role of science and technology and to life with cancer or cancer risk. By offering rich ethnographic insights into the introduction of the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, public discourses on delays, social class and care seeking, cancer suspicion in the clinic, as well as the work on fast-track referral - the book convincingly situates cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time, showing how cancer waiting times become an index of the 'state of the nation'"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Diagnosis.
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Cancer -- Early detection.
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Medical screening.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Andersen, Rikke Sand, editor.
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Trring, Marie Louise, editor.
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Manderson, Lenore, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cancer entangled : anticipation, acceleration, and the Danish state. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c2023 v, 191 pages 9781978826854 |
| ISBN |
9781978826854 (print) |
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9781978826885 (electronic bk.) |
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