Fighting for Breath - Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village

Informationen zum Autor Anna Lora-Wainwright is associate professor in the Human Geography of China at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (forthcoming). Klappentext Provides an ethnographic study of a bottom-up account of how rural families strive to make sense of cancer and care for sufferers. This book addresses crucial areas of concern such as health, development, morality, and social change in an effort to understand what is at stake in the contemporary Chinese countryside. Zusammenfassung Provides an ethnographic study of a bottom-up account of how rural families strive to make sense of cancer and care for sufferers. This book addresses crucial areas of concern such as health! development! morality! and social change in an effort to understand what is at stake in the contemporary Chinese countryside.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Lora-Wainwright
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780824867737
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-6773-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous