Cancer Entangled

Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State

Rikke Sand Andersen, Marie Louise Tørring, Rikke Sand Andersen , Stine Hauberg Nielsen

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Rutgers University Press
14 April 2023

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Medicine: general issues; Health systems & services; Medicolegal issues; Oncology; Chemotherapy

"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 health care 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""."

Contributions by: Rikke Sand Andersen, Stine Hauberg Nielsen, Michal Frumer
Edited by: Rikke Sand Andersen, Marie Louise Tørring
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 54g
ISBN: 9781978826847
ISBN 10: 1978826842
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 14 April 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"RIKKE SAND ANDERSEN is an anthropologist and professor with special responsibilities in the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University and the Department of Public Health, Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark. She has written extensively on cancer diagnostics, the production of cancer symptoms and care seeking practices. MARIE LOUISE TØRRING is an associate professor and research program director of anthropology at Aarhus University. For the past decade, she has conducted epidemiological and anthropological research on contemporary cancer transitions, in particular how cancer was reframed as an ""acute disease"". "

Reviews for Cancer Entangled: Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State

Cancer Entangled is a remarkable edited collection that chronicles the social life and shaping of cancer in Denmark. Andersen and Torring have crafted a vital contribution to the anthropology of cancer that innovatively weaves intimate experiences of surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment with historico-political analyses of the birth of 'fast-track cancer pathways' within the Danish healthcare system. Cancer Entangled is a must read for all anthropologists, sociologists, STS scholars, and political scientists interested in healthcare. --Ayo Wahlberg professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen