Confronting cancer
Subtitle: metaphors, advocacy, and anthropology
By: edited by Juliet McMullin and Diane Weiner.
Contributors: McMullin, Juliet Marie.; Weiner, Diane; School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781934691090
Subjects: Cancer -- Social aspects; Medical anthropology; Neoplasms -- economics; Neoplasms -- ethnology; Anthropology, Cultural; Healthcare Disparities; Patient Advocacy; Socioeconomic Factors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : an anthropology of cancer / Juliet McMullin and Diane Weiner; title: Remissioning life/reconfiguring anthropology / Paul Stoller; title: Cancer support groups and health advocacy : one size doesn't fit all / Holly F. Mathews; title: Experiencing diagnosis : views from Latina cervical cancer patients / Juliet McMullin; title: The elusive subversion of order : cancer in modern Crete, Greece / Anastasia Karakasidou; title: Changing views of cancer : three decades of southern California native perspectives / Diane Weiner; title: The witness project : narratives that shape the cancer experience for African American women / Deborah O. Erwin; title: Wasting away in neoliberal-ville : Mexican immigrant women's views of cervical cancer, social inequality, and gender relations / Leo R. Chavez; title: Notes from White Flint : identity, ambiguity, and disparities in cancer / Simon J. Craddock Lee; title: Self and other in cancer health disparities : negotiating power and boundaries in U.S. society / Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts; title: Where is culture in cultural tailoring? / Marjorie Kagawa-Singer.