Malignant

How Cancer Becomes Us
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-27657-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer—an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding, despite the billions of dollars spent in the search for a cure. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments, scientists generate reams of data—information that ultimately obscures as much as it clarifies. Award-winning anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain deftly unscrambles the high stakes of the resulting confusion. Expertly reading across a range of material that includes history, oncology, law, economics, and literature, Jain explains how a national culture that simultaneously aims to deny, profit from, and cure cancer entraps us in a state of paradox—one that makes the world of cancer virtually impossible to navigate for doctors, patients, caretakers, and policy makers alike. This chronicle, burning with urgency and substance leavened with brio and wit, offers a lucid guide to understanding and navigating the quicksand of uncertainty at the heart of cancer. Malignant vitally shifts the terms of an epic battle we have been losing for decades: the war on cancer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jain, S. Lochlann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Physische Anthropologie, Paläoanthropologie, Evolutionäre Anthropologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: We Just Don’t Know It Yet

1. Living in Prognosis: The Firing Squad of Statistics

2. Poker Face: Gaming a Lifespan

3. Cancer Butch: Trip Up the Fast Lane

4. Lost Chance: Medical Mistakes

5. The Mortality Effect: The Future in Cancer Trials

6. Inconceivable: Where IVF Goes Bad

7. Can Sir: What Screening Doesn’t Do

8. Fallout: Minuets in the Key of Fear

9. Rubble: Bakelite Bodies

Conclusion: Shameless

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

S. Lochlann Jain is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University and author of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States.