Fighting for breath [electronic resource] : living morally and dying of cancer in a Chinese village / Anna Lora-Wainwright.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.Description: xv, 323 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.19699/43200951 23
LOC classification:
  • RC279.C6 L67 2013eb
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Contents:
Cancer and contending forms of morality -- The evolving local moral world of Langzhong -- Water, hard work, and farm chemicals: the moral economy of cancer -- Gendered hardship, emotions, and the ambiguity of blame -- Xiguan, consumption, and shifting cancer etiologies -- Performing closeness, negotiating family relations, and the cost of cancer -- Perceived efficacy, social identities, and the rejection of cancer surgery -- Family relations and contested religious moralities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cancer and contending forms of morality -- The evolving local moral world of Langzhong -- Water, hard work, and farm chemicals: the moral economy of cancer -- Gendered hardship, emotions, and the ambiguity of blame -- Xiguan, consumption, and shifting cancer etiologies -- Performing closeness, negotiating family relations, and the cost of cancer -- Perceived efficacy, social identities, and the rejection of cancer surgery -- Family relations and contested religious moralities.

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