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Book SynopsisCancer 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".Trade Review"Cancer Entangled is a remarkable edited collection that chronicles the social life and shaping of cancer in Denmark. Andersen and Tørring 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 *"Cancer Entangled explores how the miasma of the potential of cancer infiltrates and weighs on people’s ordinary lives as well as clinical experiences. The impact of anticipatory cancer within a welfare state is at the core of each of the chapters, yet each individual chapter contributes a contextually different perspective, contributing to our understanding of the broader context. This is a conversation well worth joining!" -- M. Cameron Hay-Rollins * author of Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indones *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crafting Cancer Anticipations Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 1: The Waiting Time Paradox: Intensifying Public Discourses on the Vital Character of Cancer Waiting Times Marie Louise Tørring Chapter 2: Accelerated Diagnostics in Slow Motion: Ordinary Dramas of Life and Death in the Middle Class Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen Chapter 3: “What If It Is Just Hiding?”: Care Seeking in the Context of Symptom Expansion Rikke Sand Andersen Chapter 4: Cancer, Inequality, and Expectations of Sameness Camilla Hoffmann Merrild Chapter 5: The Ghost of Cancer in the Clinic Benedikte Møller Kristensen Chapter 6. Making Cancer Patient Pathways Work Rikke Aarhus Chapter 7: “Keeping an Eye on It”: Infrastructures of Lung Cancer Uncertainty and Certainty Michal Frumer Chapter 8: Silent Cancer Vaccine Encounters: Young Women’s Experiences with Suspected HPV Vaccine Adverse Reactions Stine Hauberg Nielsen Afterword: Urgency, Modernity, and Pace in Cancer Care Lenore Manderson Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on this recent crisis. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID. They also explore the global pandemic's impact on the conditions of care and its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.Trade Review“From Crisis to Catastrophe is a very timely book, focusing on two topics that have received great attention recently: care and COVID-19. The editors, scholars specialized in the topic, have gathered a group of outstanding experts from multiple institutions and countries to address this new phenomenon.” — Camila Arza, research fellow at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina "The editors of From Crisis to Catastrophe are three of the most important scholars of care work in the 21st century. In this book they bring together scholars from many regions across the globe, whose work has the potential to identify key strategies to create a safer, healthier, and more just economy."— Joya Misra, coauthor of The New Handbook of Political SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN PART ONE Crisis 1 Beyond Wealth-Care: Pandemic Dreams for a Just and Caring Future JOAN C. TRONTO 2 Latin America’s Response to COVID-19: The Risk of Sealing an Unequal Care Regime JULIANA MARTÍNEZ FRANZONI ANDVEENA SIDDHARTH 3 COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration ITO PENG 4 Black Lives Matter: Structural Racism, Sexism, and Carework in the United States ODICHINMA AKOSIONU, JANETTE DILL, MIGNON DUFFY, AND J’MAG KARBEAH 5 Disability, Ableism, and Care during COVID-19 in the United States LAURA MAULDIN 6 Unpaid Care in Public Places: Tensions in the Time of COVID-19 PAT ARMSTRONG AND JANNA KLOSTERMANN PART TWO Catastrophe 7 The Right to Care at Stake: The Syndemic Emergency in Latin America MARÍA NIEVES RICO AND LAURA C. PAUTASSI 8 At the Crossroads of the Employment and the Care Crises: Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic VALERIA ESQUIVEL 9 Caring for Children and the Economy: The Uneven Effects of the Pandemic on Childcare Workers, Primary School Teachers, and Unpaid Caregivers PILAR GONALONS-PONS AND JOHANNA S. QUINN 10 COVID-19 and Care for the Elderly People in Africa: An Analysis of South Africa’s Mitigation Measures ZITHA MOKOMANE AND AMEETA JAGA 11 Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic KEN CHIH-YAN SUN PART THREE Aftermath 12 Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic FRANZISKA DORN, NANCY FOLBRE, LEILA GAUTHAM, AND MARTHA MACDONALD 13 Migrants in Europe’s Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response SABRINA MARCHETTI AND MERITA MESIÄISLEHTO 14 Budgeting Care Services during the COVID-19 Crisis ORLY BENJAMIN 15 Policy, Culture, and COVID-19: European Childcare Policies during the Pandemic THURID EGGERS, CHRISTOPHER GRAGES, AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER PART FOUR Transformation 16 Exposing Fault Lines, Flaring Tensions, and the Need for New Alliances: Home Care in the Time of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada CYNTHIA J. CRANFORD 17 End-of-Life Considerations during COVID-19 CINDY L. CAIN 18 COVID-19 and the Rise of the Care Robots HELEN DICKINSON AND CATHERINE SMITH 19 Challenging Gender Regimes through Employee Voice in Carework KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD 20 Building a Care Infrastructure in the United States JULIE KASHEN Epilogue: Care in Crisis: Convergences and Divergences MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN Acknowledgments References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on this recent crisis. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID. They also explore the global pandemic's impact on the conditions of care and its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.Trade Review“From Crisis to Catastrophe is a very timely book, focusing on two topics that have received great attention recently: care and COVID-19. The editors, scholars specialized in the topic, have gathered a group of outstanding experts from multiple institutions and countries to address this new phenomenon.” — Camila Arza, research fellow at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina "The editors of From Crisis to Catastrophe are three of the most important scholars of care work in the 21st century. In this book they bring together scholars from many regions across the globe, whose work has the potential to identify key strategies to create a safer, healthier, and more just economy."— Joya Misra, coauthor of The New Handbook of Political SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN PART ONE Crisis 1 Beyond Wealth-Care: Pandemic Dreams for a Just and Caring Future JOAN C. TRONTO 2 Latin America’s Response to COVID-19: The Risk of Sealing an Unequal Care Regime JULIANA MARTÍNEZ FRANZONI ANDVEENA SIDDHARTH 3 COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration ITO PENG 4 Black Lives Matter: Structural Racism, Sexism, and Carework in the United States ODICHINMA AKOSIONU, JANETTE DILL, MIGNON DUFFY, AND J’MAG KARBEAH 5 Disability, Ableism, and Care during COVID-19 in the United States LAURA MAULDIN 6 Unpaid Care in Public Places: Tensions in the Time of COVID-19 PAT ARMSTRONG AND JANNA KLOSTERMANN PART TWO Catastrophe 7 The Right to Care at Stake: The Syndemic Emergency in Latin America MARÍA NIEVES RICO AND LAURA C. PAUTASSI 8 At the Crossroads of the Employment and the Care Crises: Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic VALERIA ESQUIVEL 9 Caring for Children and the Economy: The Uneven Effects of the Pandemic on Childcare Workers, Primary School Teachers, and Unpaid Caregivers PILAR GONALONS-PONS AND JOHANNA S. QUINN 10 COVID-19 and Care for the Elderly People in Africa: An Analysis of South Africa’s Mitigation Measures ZITHA MOKOMANE AND AMEETA JAGA 11 Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic KEN CHIH-YAN SUN PART THREE Aftermath 12 Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic FRANZISKA DORN, NANCY FOLBRE, LEILA GAUTHAM, AND MARTHA MACDONALD 13 Migrants in Europe’s Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response SABRINA MARCHETTI AND MERITA MESIÄISLEHTO 14 Budgeting Care Services during the COVID-19 Crisis ORLY BENJAMIN 15 Policy, Culture, and COVID-19: European Childcare Policies during the Pandemic THURID EGGERS, CHRISTOPHER GRAGES, AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER PART FOUR Transformation 16 Exposing Fault Lines, Flaring Tensions, and the Need for New Alliances: Home Care in the Time of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada CYNTHIA J. CRANFORD 17 End-of-Life Considerations during COVID-19 CINDY L. CAIN 18 COVID-19 and the Rise of the Care Robots HELEN DICKINSON AND CATHERINE SMITH 19 Challenging Gender Regimes through Employee Voice in Carework KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD 20 Building a Care Infrastructure in the United States JULIE KASHEN Epilogue: Care in Crisis: Convergences and Divergences MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN Acknowledgments References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOne out of every six patients in the United States is treated in a Catholic hospital that follows the policies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. These policies prohibit abortion, sterilization, contraception, some treatments for miscarriage and gender confirmation, and other reproductive care, undermining hard-won patients’ rights to bodily autonomy and informed decision-making. Drawing on rich interviews with patients and providers, this book reveals both how the bishops’ directives operate and how people inside Catholic hospitals navigate the resulting restrictions on medical practice. In doing so, Bishops and Bodies fleshes out a vivid picture of how The Church’s stance on sex, reproduction, and “life” itself manifests in institutions that affect us all.Trade Review"Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, horrific stories began to emerge from hospitals across the country. To many, these denials of emergency medical care seemed to be an alarming new consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision. Lori Freedman, however, has documented such stories for well over a decade. We would do well to study her work carefully — including her book Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals — in this critical moment. * Catholics for Choice *“It’s a recipe for disaster—the Catholic Church wants the most births possible, and most American women want to limit their childbearing and protect their health with modern advances in contraception and abortion. Yet in the name of corporate conscience, our anachronistic laws allow Catholic healthcare to require physicians of all faiths to do things that violate medical ethics and often constitute malpractice. Freedman’s compelling research, rich storytelling, and incisive analysis reveal how outrageous Bishop-knows-best medicine really is.” -- Katie Watson * author of Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Ordinary Abortion *"Bishops and Bodies is poised to make a significant impact not just in social science and medical humanities circles, but in broader public conversations about health care, reproductive rights, and the place of religion in society." -- Jessica Martucci * author of Back to the Breast: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America *Table of ContentsForeword by Debra Stulberg Prologue: Unsafe and Unequal Introduction: Doctrinal Iatrogenesis 1 Growth: How Catholic Health Care Expanded 2 Inferior: How Catholic Directives Contradict Medical Standards 3 Consumer Medicine? Patients and the Illusion of Choice 4 Emergencies: Patient Loss and Suffering 5 Mostly Above-Board Workarounds 6 Under the Radar Workarounds 7 Separation of Church and Hospital 8 Conclusion Acknowledgements Appendix Notes Index

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