Description
About the Author
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 TORRING 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".
Reviews
"Cancer Entangled is a remarkable edited collection that chronicles the social life and shaping of cancer in Denmark. Andersen and Torring have crafted a vital contribution to the anthropology of cancer that innovatively weaves intimate experiences of surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment with historico-political analyses of the birth of 'fast-track cancer pathways' within the Danish healthcare system. Cancer Entangled is a must read for all anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars, and political scientists interested in healthcare." -- Ayo Wahlberg * professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen *
"Cancer Entangled explores how the miasma of the potential of cancer infiltrates and weighs on people's ordinary lives as well as clinical experiences. The impact of anticipatory cancer within a welfare state is at the core of each of the chapters, yet each individual chapter contributes a contextually different perspective, contributing to our understanding of the broader context. This is a conversation well worth joining!" -- M. Cameron Hay-Rollins * author of Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indones *
Book Information
ISBN 9781978826847
Author Rikke Sand Andersen
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 54g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 15mm