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Suffering and Inequality Suffering and Inequality
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Social Suffering and What is at Stake Social Suffering and What is at Stake
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Suffering, Subjectivity, and Resilience Suffering, Subjectivity, and Resilience
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Making Sense of Cancer and the Multiple Careers of Cancer Etiologies Making Sense of Cancer and the Multiple Careers of Cancer Etiologies
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Families, Social Relations, and Managing Illness Families, Social Relations, and Managing Illness
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Medical Anthropology of China and the Practices of Rural Sufferers Medical Anthropology of China and the Practices of Rural Sufferers
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Situating an Ethnography of Contemporary China: Market Reforms and Moral Economy Situating an Ethnography of Contemporary China: Market Reforms and Moral Economy
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Failure of Morality and Villager-State Relations Failure of Morality and Villager-State Relations
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Declining Morality among Villagers? Remaking Moral Worlds Declining Morality among Villagers? Remaking Moral Worlds
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Conclusion Conclusion
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1 Cancer and Contending Forms of Morality
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Published:May 2013
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Abstract
This chapter discusses relevant areas in the anthropology of suffering and the ethnography of rural China, with particular emphasis on social suffering, subjectivity, family management of illness, cancer etiologies, and moral economy and morality. It begins with an overview of the link between critical medical anthropology and health inequalities before explaining the concept of social suffering within the context of cancer. It then considers villagers' multifaceted and situationally contingent narratives about cancer causality and practices of care and how they are embedded in a larger moral economy discourse. It also examines villagers' efforts to inhabit moral worlds and to make sense of the difficulties and suffering posed by cancer.
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