INVESTIGADORES
LUXARDO Natalia
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
PRODUCING TRANSNATIONAL CANCER ETHNOGRAPHY: ETHICS AND ENTANGLEMENTS
Autor/es:
LUXARDO, NATALIA
Lugar:
Denver
Reunión:
Mesa redonda; 114 Annual Meeting de la American Anthropological Association; 2015
Institución organizadora:
American Anthropological Association
Resumen:
The study of end-of-life´ (mostly cancer) caregivers was embedded within a larger Project that is still ongoing. Basically, from 15 years now, as a social scientist ?my bachelor is in social worker, my postgraduate studies have to do with anthropology- I aim at deconstructing the clinical category of ?cancer? and to reconstruct it as a social sciences object, through inquirying in its genealogy as biomedical category which spread into the social arena, the identification of multiple dimensions involved such as impact in society, meanings for patients, governmental interventions, etc. and all the components that made of it a social phenomenon.I will share the main highlights of the chapter that it´s only focus on informal carers, but since it´s a kind of ?one shot? meeting I think that it would be much more fruitful to move forward in my presentation for sharing not only the last results but also a broader spectrum of the dimensions analyzed. This is the way that we can trace common areas of interests among the rest of the participants in this roundtable, thinking of strengthening this informal network of transnational researchers focusing on cancer from anthropological perspectives with future collective projects.The idea isn´t going deeper into a chapter that will be available for all to read, but to go deeper into the main process in which it is anchoered, since is there the roots that would enable me expose the current panorama of the ongoing research on cancer in a medium-low income country, showing trends and activities involved that may allow participants to identify which are the areas of interest that we have in common. This can trigger the delineation of areas for future inquiries build from transnational networks that share anthropological and social sciences perspectives when getting into cancer research.
