Fighting for Breath : : Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village / / Anna Lora-Wainwright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Lora-Wainwright, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 10 b&w images, 1 map, 1 chart

Numerous reports of "cancer villages" have appeared in the past decade in both Chinese and Western media, highlighting the downside of China's economic development. Less generally known is how people experience and understand cancer in areas where there is no agreement on its cause. W...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Guide to Key Places and People
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Cancer and Contending Forms of Morality
• Chapter 2: The Evolving Moral World of Langzhong
• Chapter 3: Water, Hard Work, and Farm Chemicals: The Moral Economy of Cancer
• Chapter 4: Gendered Hardship, Emotions, and the Ambiguity of Blame
• Chapter 5: Xiguan, Consumption, and Shifting Cancer Etiologies
• Chapter 6: Performing Closeness, Negotiating Family Relations, and the Cost of Cancer
• Chapter 7: Perceived Efficacy, Social Identities, and the Rejection of Cancer Surgery
• Chapter 8: Family Relations and Contested Religious Moralities
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Questionnaire (English Translation)
• Appendix 2: List of Pesticides Used in Langzhong and Their Health Effects
• Notes
• References
• Index