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Overview"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 health care 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""." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rikke Sand Andersen , Marie Louise Tørring , Rikke Sand Andersen , Stine Hauberg NielsenPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.064kg ISBN: 9781978826854ISBN 10: 1978826850 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 14 April 2023 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 1: The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times Marie Louise Tørring Chapter 2: Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen Chapter 3: “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking in the Context of Symptom Expansion Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 4: Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness Camilla Hoffmann Merrild Chapter 5: The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic Benedikte Møller Kristensen Chapter 6. Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work Rikke Aarhus Chapter 7: “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty Michal Frumer Chapter 8: Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions Stine Hauberg Nielsen Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care Lenore Manderson Acknowledgements Notes on ContributorsReviewsCancer Entangled is a remarkable edited collection that chronicles the social life and shaping of cancer in Denmark. Andersen and Torring have crafted a vital contribution to the anthropology of cancer that innovatively weaves intimate experiences of surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment with historico-political analyses of the birth of 'fast-track cancer pathways' within the Danish healthcare system. Cancer Entangled is a must read for all anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars, and political scientists interested in healthcare. --Ayo Wahlberg professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen Author Information"RIKKE SAND ANDERSEN is an anthropologist and professor with special responsibilities in the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University and the Department of Public Health, Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark. She has written extensively on cancer diagnostics, the production of cancer symptoms and care seeking practices. MARIE LOUISE TØRRING is an associate professor and research program director of anthropology at Aarhus University. For the past decade, she has conducted epidemiological and anthropological research on contemporary cancer transitions, in particular how cancer was reframed as an ""acute disease"". " Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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