Vivir En Cronicidad

Terminal Living through Cuban Cancer Vaccines

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4564360
AutoresNaomi C Schoenfeld (0000-0002-9056-3346, University of California, San Francisco, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen41
Número2
Páginas141-155
Fecha de publicación2022-02-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2021.1891053
PMID33684318
OpenAlexW3134092757
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas35

I examine in this article a movement in Cuba known as cronicidad (chronicity), to reimagine advanced cancer as a normal social experience. In Cuba, cronicidad is particularly visible through treatments called therapeutic vaccines designed to slow the growth of tumors. I explore how cronicidad becomes possible through the Cuban socialist integration of biotechnology and public health. Drawing from interviews with and observations of Cuban cancer researchers and clinicians involved with a novel lung cancer vaccine, I argue that cronicidad differs from chronicity as an area of anthropological inquiry in its emplacement of advanced cancer within routine care in Cuba's socialist biomedical system

Cancer · Political science · Public health · Terminal cancer · Cuban History and Society · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Nursing