Cancer Entangled : : Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State / / ed. by Marie Louise Tørring, Rikke Sand Andersen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Aarhus, Rikke,; Andersen, Rikke Sand,; Frumer, Michal,; Hauberg Nielsen, Stine,; Hebsgaard Offersen, Sara Marie,; Hoffmann Merrild, Camilla,; Kristensen, Benedikte Møller,; Manderson, Lenore,; Merrild, Camilla Hoffmann,; Møller Kristensen, Benedikte,; Nielsen, Stine Hauberg,; Offersen, Sara Marie Hebsgaard,; Sand Andersen, Rikke,; Tørring, Marie Louise,
• HerausgeberIn: Andersen, Rikke Sand,; Tørring, Marie Louise,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 1 bw, 4 color, 1 table

Cancer Entangled explores the shifts that took place in Denmark around the millennium, when health promoters set out to minimize delays in cancer diagnoses in hope of improving cancer survival. The authors suggest a temporal reframing of cancer control that emphasizes the importance of focusing on how people – potential patients as well as healthcare professionals – experience and anticipate cancer before a diagnosis or a prediction has been made. This argument compellingly challenges and augments anthropological work on cancer control that has privileged attention to the productive role of science and technology and to life with cancer or cancer risk. By offering rich ethnographic insights into the introduction of the first cancer vaccine, cancer signs and symptoms, public discourses on delays, social class and care seeking, cancer suspicion in the clinic, as well as the work on fast-track referral – the book convincingly situates cancer control in an ethical registrar involving attention to acceleration and time, showing how cancer waiting times become an index of the ‘state of the nation’.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations -- 1 The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times -- 2 Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class -- 3 “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking and Symptom Expansion -- 4 Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness -- 5 The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic -- 6 Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work -- 7 “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty -- 8 Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions -- Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index