Cancer Entangled
Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State
By Benedikte Møller Kristensen, Camilla Hoffmann Merrild, Lenore Manderson, Marie Louise Tørring, Michal Frumer, Rikke Aarhus, Rikke Sand Andersen, Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen, Stine Hauberg Nielsen | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
About the book
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\".
Editions of Cancer Entangled
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781978826847
- EBook
- ISBN 9781978826861
- PDF
- ISBN 9781978826885
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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\".
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What is Cancer Entangled about?
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\".
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Cancer Entangled?
Medicine and Nursing > Clinical and internal medicine > Diseases and disorders > Oncology
Where can I read a sample of Cancer Entangled?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781978826847
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Cancer Entangled?
Benedikte Møller Kristensen, Camilla Hoffmann Merrild, Lenore Manderson, Marie Louise Tørring, Michal Frumer, Rikke Aarhus, Rikke Sand Andersen, Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen, Stine Hauberg Nielsen
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Cancer Entangled is available as paperback(ISBN 9781978826847) and ebook(ISBN 9781978826861) and pdf(ISBN 9781978826885)
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