'A Good Guy' Again: Biosociality in a Cancer Self-help Organization
| Autor: | Feifei Li, Chadwick Wang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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China Health (social science) media_common.quotation_subject Social solidarity 03 medical and health sciences State (polity) Cancer Survivors Neoplasms medicine Humans 0601 history and archaeology Sociology Citizenship media_common Aged 060101 anthropology 030505 public health Self help organization Anthropology Medical Qigong Cancer Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Middle Aged medicine.disease Biosocial theory Self-Help Groups Anthropology Female Ideology 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Medical anthropology. 40(1) |
| ISSN: | 1545-5882 |
| Popis: | The notion of biosociality has been employed in the understanding of forging new forms of social groupings and other forms of social solidarity, with its feasibility and basis challenged in non-Western contexts. According to our study of a Chinese cancer self-help organization, an emergent biosociality occurs through an increasingly common diagnostic biomedical category, cancer. But what truly binds these people tighter is the pre-modern local knowledge of qi, as well as state ideology about living a useful life. A new form of biosocial citizenship, "a good guy (haoren yige)," linked to cancer, is thus endowed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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