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Cancer and the Kali Yuga
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As news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early twenty-first century, global public health planners accelerated efforts to ...
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11 October 2022

As news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early twenty-first century, global public health planners accelerated efforts to prevent, screen, and treat these reproductive cancers in low-income Indian communities. Cancer and the Kali Yuga reveals that women who are the targets of these interventions in Tamil Nadu, South India, hold views about cancer causality, late diagnosis, and challenges to accessing treatment that differ from the public health discourse. Cecilia Coale Van Hollen's critical feminist ethnography centers and amplifies the voices of Dalit Tamil women who situate cancer within the nexus of their class, caste, and gender positions. Dalit women's narratives about their experiences with cancer present a powerful and poignant critique of the sociocultural and political-economic conditions that marginalize them and jeopardize their health and well-being in twenty-first-century India.
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Pages: 306
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
11 October 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520386525
Format: Hardcover
"An exemplary ethnography. . . . Van Hollen’s work is extremely significant in the realm of medical anthropology as it vividly delineates the experience of these specific cancer patients whilst also offering a multidimensional understanding. It is empirically grounded and brings out the nuances of everyday lived experiences."
Cecilia Coale Van Hollen is a medical anthropologist and Teaching Professor in the Asian Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India and Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Time of Writing and Transliteration
Introduction
1. History and Hospitals
2. Poverty and Chemicals
3. Women and Work
4. Screening and Morality
5. Disclosure and Care
6. Biomedicine and Bodies
7. Sorcery and Religion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Note on Time of Writing and Transliteration
Introduction
1. History and Hospitals
2. Poverty and Chemicals
3. Women and Work
4. Screening and Morality
5. Disclosure and Care
6. Biomedicine and Bodies
7. Sorcery and Religion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index