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Surviving Oncology: Living With Cancer in the Wake of Integrative Care

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dc.contributor.advisorMyers, Natasha
dc.creatorAtkinson-Graham, Melissa Rose
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-20T16:47:09Z
dc.date.available2016-09-20T16:47:09Z
dc.date.copyright2015-12-09
dc.date.issued2016-09-20
dc.date.updated2016-09-20T16:47:09Z
dc.degree.disciplineSocial Anthropology
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation analyzes the emerging medical field of integrative oncology, attending to how this approach to cancer treatment unsettles and reconfigures existing biomedical ideas about bodies and cancer. Informed by twelve months of multi-sited ethnographic study conducted in the state of California, it examines the attempts made by integrative practitioners to provide whole patient care by incorporating complementary medicines such as Ayurveda and Chinese medicine into conventional oncology. I suggest that this approach enacts a kind of sensitivity for how cancer is lived as a disease conditioned by emotional, psychological, social, and environmental factors, requiring treatments attentive to these dimensions. Throughout this study I grapple with the intentions of integrative oncologists and the realities of the political economy of medicine and insurance in the United States that leaves integrative care out of the reach of most people, producing a situation where many are strained to imagine different ways of surviving oncology. At the core of this project is a concern for what it means and what it takes to live well with cancer in biomedicine.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/32224
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectCultural anthropology
dc.subject.keywordsAnthropology of bodies and embodiment
dc.subject.keywordsMedical anthropology
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist science studies
dc.subject.keywordsAffect studies
dc.subject.keywordsBiomedicine
dc.subject.keywordsIntegrative oncology
dc.titleSurviving Oncology: Living With Cancer in the Wake of Integrative Care
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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