TY - BOOK
T1 - Globalism and gendering cancer
T2 - Tracking the trope of oncogenic women from the US to Kenya
AU - Mara, Miriam O.Kane
N1 - Funding Information:
The study presented in this paper was funded by the Swedish Energy Agency (Grant no. 39885-1). Officials from this agency also participated in interviews and workshops that provided valuable input to the analysis and the authors are thankful for this contribution. An earlier version of the paper was presented at the 6th International Sustainability Transitions Conference in Brighton, UK, in August 2015. The authors are grateful for points raised at the conference, valuable comments from anonymous referees, and the engagement of the many interviewees who made this work possible.
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PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This book connects a rhetorical examination of medical and public health policy documents with a humanistic investigation of cultural texts to uncover the link between gendered representations of health and cancer. The author argues that in western biomedical contexts cancer is considered a women's disease and their bodies are treated as inherently oncogenic or cancer-producing, which leads to biomedical practices that adversely impact their bodily autonomy. She examines how these biases traverse national boundaries by examining the transmission of biomedical cancer practices from the US and international organizations to Kenya. This book is suited to scholars and students working in the fields of Rhetorics of Health and Medicine, Medical Humanities and Gender Studies. It is also of interest to medical professionals and readers interested in globalism and global health.
AB - This book connects a rhetorical examination of medical and public health policy documents with a humanistic investigation of cultural texts to uncover the link between gendered representations of health and cancer. The author argues that in western biomedical contexts cancer is considered a women's disease and their bodies are treated as inherently oncogenic or cancer-producing, which leads to biomedical practices that adversely impact their bodily autonomy. She examines how these biases traverse national boundaries by examining the transmission of biomedical cancer practices from the US and international organizations to Kenya. This book is suited to scholars and students working in the fields of Rhetorics of Health and Medicine, Medical Humanities and Gender Studies. It is also of interest to medical professionals and readers interested in globalism and global health.
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U2 - 10.4324/9780429243387
DO - 10.4324/9780429243387
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85095919661
SN - 9780367198107
BT - Globalism and gendering cancer
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -