Cancer Entangled

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". 

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