Cancer Entangled

Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-978826-84-7
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

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’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andersen, Rikke Sand

Tørring, Marie Louise

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Chemotherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 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 Contributors