Africanizing Oncology

Author : Marissa Mika
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821447513
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africanizing Oncology written by Marissa Mika and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative contemporary history that blends insights from a variety of disciplines to highlight how a storied African cancer institute has shaped lives and identities in postcolonial Uganda. Over the past decade, an increasingly visible crisis of cancer in Uganda has made local and international headlines. Based on transcontinental research and public engagement with the Uganda Cancer Institute that began in 2010, Africanizing Oncology frames the cancer hospital as a microcosm of the Ugandan state, as a space where one can trace the lived experiences of Ugandans in the twentieth century. Ongoing ethnographic fieldwork, patient records, oral histories, private papers from US oncologists, American National Cancer Institute records, British colonial office reports, and even the architecture of the institute itself show how Ugandans understood and continue to shape ideas about national identity, political violence, epidemics, and economic life. Africanizing Oncology describes the political, social, technological, and biomedical dimensions of how Ugandans created, sustained, and transformed this institute over the past half century. With insights from science and technology studies and contemporary African history, Marissa Mika’s work joins a new wave of contemporary histories of the political, technological, moral, and intellectual aspirations and actions of Africans after independence. It contributes to a growing body of work on chronic disease and situates the contemporary urgency of the mounting cancer crisis on the continent in a longer history of global cancer research and care. With its creative integration of African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Africanizing Oncology speaks to multiple scholarly communities.

Author : Olufunmilayo I. Olopade
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402036647
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breast Cancer in Women of African Descent written by Olufunmilayo I. Olopade and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are numerous technical-scientific books on breast cancer in the global bibliography, such books deal exclusively with the nature of the disease in majority populations of the Western societies, with little or no reference to the nature of the disease in the minority populations in such societies. Similarly, the nature of breast cancer in black women of the less privileged societies, and in women of ethnic groups living in countries of similar socio-economic status, is virtually unknown. For various epidemiological reasons, breast cancer incidence is rapidly increasing in these counties, more so than currently is the case in developed countries. Thus, the global burden of cancer is shifting gradually to these areas of the world, and may equal or even surpass the breast cancer burden in the Western societies within the foreseeable future. This book is unique because it bucks the trend of virtually all other breast cancer books by addressing specifically the breast cancer experience of women of African descent and their lifestyle counterparts in other societies of the world.

Author : Jennifer Hart
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253069343
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making an African City written by Jennifer Hart and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British colonial officials, Accra Town Council members, and a diverse group of technocrats used regulation to define what an "acceptable" city looked like. Unlike cities elsewhere on the continent, Accra had a long history of urbanism that predated British colonial presence. By criminalizing some activities and privileging others, colonial officials sought to marginalize indigenous practices of Accra residents and shape the development of a new, "modern" city. Hart argues, however, that residents regularly pushed back, protesting regulations, refusing to participate in newly developed systems, reappropriating infrastructure, demanding rights to city services, and asserting their own informal vision for the future of the city. While urban plans and regulations ultimately failed to substantively remake the city, their effects were and are still felt by urban residents, who are often subject to but not served by urban infrastructure. Making an African City explores how the informalization of Accra's development was a historical process, not a natural and self-evident phenomenon, which connects the history of the city with the history of urban development and the growth of technocracy around the world.

Author : Sylvia Dunnavant
Publisher : Usfi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Life written by Sylvia Dunnavant and published by Usfi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Jansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031319133
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences written by Jonathan Jansen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the decolonization movement in South Africa and around the world, this edited work presents fresh evidence and advances new arguments on the politics and economics of colonial biomedical knowledge in South Africa and other parts of the African continent. Covering a richly diverse set of fields---including human genetics, obstetrics, occupational therapy, medical photography and the vaccine sciences---the book demonstrates the troubled histories and the enduring effects of imperial knowledge decades since the end of colonial rule and apartheid. This is a valuable text on the politics of the biomedical sciences written from the perspective of the African continent, and at the same time it revisits knowledge/power relationships between the majority (“global South”) and minority (“global north”) words in a historical perspective and in their contemporary expression in the disciplines. The immediate benefit is a reference resource for medical science researchers, and a teaching text for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students. The book is further composed as an accessible, readable and interesting text on politics and medicine in Africa for the discerning lay reader.

Author : Ronit Elk
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826108822
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cancer Disparities written by Ronit Elk and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been remarkable progress in understanding, preventing, detecting, diagnosing, and treating cancer, resulting in a reduction of cancer incidence and mortality in the United States. Despite this, the cancer burden varies considerably by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Cancer incidence rates vary markedly between racial/ethnic groups, but even more startling are the differences in outcome across groups. Cancer Disparities: Causes and Evidence-Based Solutions helps readers understand the scope and causes of this inequity by providing a detailed analysis of the many factors that result in cancer disparities across the cancer continuum, including the role of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, access to and use of services, insurance status, geographic variables, and differences in treatment provided to patients. Further, it is the first book to describe evidence-based, concrete solutions that can be used to reduce or even eliminate cancer health disparities. Fifteen previously unpublished studies of interventions designed specifically to achieve health equality are described. These studies focus on contextually and culturally appropriate strategies to enhance cancer prevention, screening and early detection, treatment, symptom management, and quality of life in underserved populations.

Author : Dein, Simon
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335214584
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture And Cancer Care written by Dein, Simon and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines a number of cultural themes in relation to cancer, including rates of incidence among ethnic groups, cultural variability in cancer treatments and the influence on prognosis, complimentary and alternative treatments, and palliative care across cultures.

Author : Linda Rae Bennett
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800080735
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cancer and the Politics of Care written by Linda Rae Bennett and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume responds to the epic impacts of cancer as a global phenomenon. Through the fine-grained lens of ethnography, the contributors present new thinking on how social, economic, race, gender and other structural inequalities intersect, compound and complicate health inequalities. Cancer experiences and impacts are explored across eleven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Senegal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The volume engages with specific cancers from the point of primary prevention, to screening, diagnosis, treatment (or its absence), and end-of-life care. Cancer and the Politics of Care traverses new theoretical terrain through explicitly critiquing cancer interventions, their limitations and success, the politics that drive them, and their embeddedness in local cultures and value systems. It extends prior work on cancer, by incorporating the perspectives of patients and their families, ‘at risk’ groups and communities, health professionals, cancer advocates and educators, and patient navigators. The volume advances cross-cultural understandings of care, resisting simple dichotomies between caregiving and receiving, and reveals the fraught ethics of care that must be negotiated in resource-poor settings and stratified health systems. Its diversity and innovation ensures its wide utility among those working in and studying medical anthropology, social anthropology and other fields at the intersections of social science, medicine and health equity.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the National Cancer Institute written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the National Cancer Institute written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: