Anna Lora-Wainwright is Associate Professor in the Human Geography of China at the University of Oxford, and the author of Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village.
Numerous reports of “cancer villages” have appeared in the past decade in both Chinese and Western media, highlighting the downside of China’s economic development. Less generally known is how people experience and understand cancer in areas where there is no agreement on its cause. Who or what do they blame? How do they cope with its onset? Fighting for Breath is the first ethnography to offer a bottom-up account of how rural families strive to make sense of cancer and care for sufferers. It 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.
Encounters with cancer are instances in which social and moral fault lines may become visible. Anna Lora-Wainwright combines powerful narratives and critical engagement with an array of scholarly debates in sociocultural and medical anthropology and in the anthropology of China. The result is a moving exploration of the social inequities endemic to post-1949 China and the enduring rural-urban divide that continues to challenge social justice in the People’s Republic. In-depth case studies present villagers’ “fight for breath” as both a physical and social struggle to reclaim a moral life, ensure family and neighborly support, and critique the state for its uneven welfare provision. Lora-Wainwright depicts their suffering as lived experience, but also as embedded in domestic economies and in the commodification of care that has placed the burden on families and individuals.
Fighting for Breath will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers in Chinese studies, sociocultural and medical anthropology, human geography, development studies, and the social study of medicine.
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http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8979-9780824836825.aspx
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田野格局略小但扎实,理论扎实,分析非常精彩。大家都喜欢谈moral,这本是目前读的思路最清楚的了,通过村民对癌症的疾病诠释与应对策略讨论中国社会的道德变迁。只是对结论存疑,村民的一切行为都被解读为对市场经济道德的批判?总觉得这种道德多少已经被内化了,还有即使辨认出这种批判又有什么意义呢。。
评分非常非常细致的民族志。我觉得很难得。
评分does she have to articulate people's motivation of a particular action and claim that what is written down is exactly what their moral stance is? Apart from the question of over-interpretation/ the blurring of fact and observation, she doesn't propose a moral-philosophical analysis of the deeper reasoning for people's choice (家庭伦理的根源、道德竞争如何产生等).
评分田野格局略小但扎实,理论扎实,分析非常精彩。大家都喜欢谈moral,这本是目前读的思路最清楚的了,通过村民对癌症的疾病诠释与应对策略讨论中国社会的道德变迁。只是对结论存疑,村民的一切行为都被解读为对市场经济道德的批判?总觉得这种道德多少已经被内化了,还有即使辨认出这种批判又有什么意义呢。。
评分does she have to articulate people's motivation of a particular action and claim that what is written down is exactly what their moral stance is? Apart from the question of over-interpretation/ the blurring of fact and observation, she doesn't propose a moral-philosophical analysis of the deeper reasoning for people's choice (家庭伦理的根源、道德竞争如何产生等).
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