Assemblages of Cancer: Experiences and Contexts of Breast Cancer in the Uk, France and Italy

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Cinzia Greco

Assemblages of Cancer

Experiences and Contexts of Breast Cancer in the Uk, France and Italy

Cinzia Greco

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Manchester University Press
11 March 2025

Anthropology; Medical sociology; Oncology

Series: Inscriptions

Assemblages of cancer illustrates the tensions in the experiences and context of breast cancer in Western Europe. Breast cancer is presented as a success story in oncology, especially in countries with advanced, universal healthcare systems. At the same time, individual experiences are shaped by uncertainty, local variability of healthcare provisions, and the need for patients to assemble information about the treatments, knowledge on healthcare systems navigation, and different processes of meaning-making to manage the uncertainty and variability characterising individual outcomes. The book explores both how individual bodies and experiences are transformed by different local medical practices, institutions and discourses of breast cancer and how patients need to find their own way in these contexts. Assemblages of cancer is based on ten years of ethnographic work with patients and medical professionals in the UK, France and Italy.

By: Cinzia Greco
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526171443
ISBN 10: 1526171449
Series: Inscriptions
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 11 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction 1 The political context of breast cancer in Europe 2 The cultural landscape of breast cancer 3 Biomedical innovations and the redefinition of breast cancer 4 Assembling bodies: Breast cancer and post-diagnosis metamorphoses 5 Breast cancer: an exercise in uncertainty 6 Between disruptions and recompositions: the post-diagnosis life Conclusion: The meaning of assemblages and assemblages of meanings in breast cancer References Index -- .

Cinzia Greco is a Mid-Career Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at The University of Manchester.