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Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village
Ann Lora-Wainwright
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Hardcover. This book explores how people experience and understand cancer in a place where there is no agreement on its cause. It examines how villagers cope with the onset of cancer and who or what they hold to blame. Based on fieldwork in rural northeast Sichuan Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBS; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 690.
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. Who or what do they blame? How do they cope with its onset? Fighting for Breath is the first ethnography to offer a bottom-up account of how rural families strive to make sense of cancer and care for sufferers. It addresses crucial areas of concern such as health, development, morality, and social change in an effort ... Read more
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. Who or what do they blame? How do they cope with its onset? Fighting for Breath is the first ethnography to offer a bottom-up account of how rural families strive to make sense of cancer and care for sufferers. It addresses crucial areas of concern such as health, development, morality, and social change in an effort ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Univ of Hawaii Pr
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824836825
SKU
V9780824836825
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About Ann Lora-Wainwright
Anna Lora-Wainwright is university lecturer in the Human Geography of China at Oxford University, UK.
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