Cancer and secrecy in contemporary India

In examining the secrecy around cancer in India, I develop recent anthropological work on how practices of medical non-disclosure grow out of contextually rooted notions of care. I extend the insights of this work in rejecting the framing of non-disclosure as a sign of cultural lack. But while much...

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Main Author: Banerjee, Dwaipayan (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media, 2020-02-21T19:09:47Z.
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