Lora-Wainwright, Anna, 1979-

Fighting for breath living morally and dying of cancer in a Chinese village / [electronic resource] : Anna Lora-Wainwright. - Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, 2013. - xv, 323 p. : ill., map.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Cancer--Social aspects--China--Langzhong Shi.
Cancer--Patients--Care--Moral and ethical aspects--China--Langzhong Shi.


Electronic books.

RC279.C6 / L67 2013eb

362.19699/43200951

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