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Assemblages of Cancer

Experiences and Contexts of Breast Cancer in the Uk, France and Italy

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Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7144-3 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
A qualitative, social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical, institutional and cultural contexts in the UK, France and Italy. -- .
Assemblages of cancer illustrates the tensions in the experiences and context of breast cancer in Western Europe. Breast cancer is presented as a success story in oncology, especially in countries with advanced, universal healthcare systems. At the same time, individual experiences are shaped by uncertainty, local variability of healthcare provisions, and the need for patients to assemble information about the treatments, knowledge on healthcare systems navigation, and different processes of meaning-making to manage the uncertainty and variability characterising individual outcomes. The book explores both how individual bodies and experiences are transformed by different local medical practices, institutions and discourses of breast cancer and how patients need to find their own way in these contexts. Assemblages of cancer is based on ten years of ethnographic work with patients and medical professionals in the UK, France and Italy. -- .

Cinzia Greco is a Mid-Career Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at The University of Manchester. -- .

Introduction
1 The political context of breast cancer in Europe
2 The cultural landscape of breast cancer
3 Biomedical innovations and the redefinition of breast cancer
4 Assembling bodies: Breast cancer and post-diagnosis metamorphoses
5 Breast cancer: an exercise in uncertainty
6 Between disruptions and recompositions: the post-diagnosis life
Conclusion: The meaning of assemblages and assemblages of meanings in breast cancer

References
Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.2.2025
Reihe/Serie Inscriptions
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
ISBN-10 1-5261-7144-9 / 1526171449
ISBN-13 978-1-5261-7144-3 / 9781526171443
Zustand Neuware
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