Cecilia Coale Van Hollen is a medical anthropologist and Teaching Professor in the Asian Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India and Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations Note on Time of Writing and TransliterationIntroduction 1. History and Hospitals2. Poverty and Chemicals3. Women and Work4. Screening and Morality5. Disclosure and Care6. Biomedicine and Bodies7. Sorcery and Religion ConclusionNotesBibliography Index

"An exemplary ethnography. . . . Van Hollen’s work is extremely significant in the realm of medical anthropology as it vividly delineates the experience of these specific cancer patients whilst also offering a multidimensional understanding. It is empirically grounded and brings out the nuances of everyday lived experiences."

Cecilia Coale Van Hollen is a medical anthropologist and Teaching Professor in the Asian Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India and Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations Note on Time of Writing and TransliterationIntroduction 1. History and Hospitals2. Poverty and Chemicals3. Women and Work4. Screening and Morality5. Disclosure and Care6. Biomedicine and Bodies7. Sorcery and Religion ConclusionNotesBibliography Index

"An exemplary ethnography. . . . Van Hollen’s work is extremely significant in the realm of medical anthropology as it vividly delineates the experience of these specific cancer patients whilst also offering a multidimensional understanding. It is empirically grounded and brings out the nuances of everyday lived experiences."

Cecilia Coale Van Hollen is a medical anthropologist and Teaching Professor in the Asian Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India and Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India.

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations Note on Time of Writing and TransliterationIntroduction 1. History and Hospitals2. Poverty and Chemicals3. Women and Work4. Screening and Morality5. Disclosure and Care6. Biomedicine and Bodies7. Sorcery and Religion ConclusionNotesBibliography Index

"An exemplary ethnography. . . . Van Hollen’s work is extremely significant in the realm of medical anthropology as it vividly delineates the experience of these specific cancer patients whilst also offering a multidimensional understanding. It is empirically grounded and brings out the nuances of everyday lived experiences."