Chinese "Cancer Villages" : : Rural Development, Environmental Change and Public Health /

Chinese "Cancer Villages" : : Rural Development, Environmental Change and Public Health / / Yajuan Luo, Pengli Cheng, Ajiang Chen.

In the process of industrialization and urbanization, the phenomenon of cancer villages appears in many places of China. Although the relationship between pollution and cancer is hard to distinguish in most of those cancer villages, villagers, media and local government all agree that high incidence...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Chen, Ajiang,
Cheng, Pengli,
Luo, Yajuan,
MitwirkendeR:
Ajiang, Chen,
Caihong, Li,
Holdaway, Jennifer,
Pengli, Cheng,
Qi, Li,
Wuyi, Wang,
Yajuan, Luo,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures, Graphs and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface to the English Language Edition
  • 1 Retrospective Thoughts on the ‘Cancer Village’ Phenomenon
  • 2 The Ins and Outs of a ‘Cancer Village’
  • 3 A Subei ‘Cancer Village’
  • 4 Environmental Change and Health Risks
  • 5 A Prosperous ‘Cancer Village’
  • 6 Coexistence of Poverty and Cancer
  • 7 Problematization and De-stigmatization
  • 8 Behind the ‘High Incidence of Lung Cancer’
  • 9 Villagers’ Perceptions of and Responses to the Relationship between Cancer and Pollution
  • 10 Villagers Strategies for Mitigating Environmental Health Risks
  • Index
  • Index (Chinese)

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