Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi

by Dwaipayan Banerjee

Book Overview

In Enduring Cancer Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease. Due to long wait times, most of the urban poor do not receive a cancer diagnosis until it is too late to effectively treat the disease. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in alongside the city's largest cancer care NGO and at India's premier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478009551
• ISBN13: 9781478009559
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"