"A Good Guy" Again
Biosociality in a Cancer Self-help Organization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4564423 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Feifei Li (0000-0001-9709-8937, Tsinghua University), Chadwick Wang (0000-0001-6563-3464, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50-63 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2020.1775219 |
| PMID | 32619355 |
| OpenAlex | W3039518095 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 45 |
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
Biosocial theory · Citizenship · Epistemology · Ideology · Personality · Political science · Politics · Social organization · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Empathy and Medical Education · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Ten Thousand Things
Cancer statistics in China, 2015
Global Assemblages
Flourishing Yin
Remaking the Self
The public shaping of medical research
Parents like me
The experience of cancer survivors in community-based psycho-social support activities in Shanghai, China
The uneven seepage of science
Understanding Self-Help/Mutual Aid
What binds biosociality? The collective effervescence of the parent-led conference
Negotiating structural vulnerability in cancer control
Genetics, biosocial groups & the future of identity
Appetites
Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds
Women and prostate cancer support groups
Gender, cancer experience and internet use
Liminality as biographical disruption
What do cancer support groups provide which other supportive relationships do not? The experience of peer support groups for people with cancer
Liminality
The breast-cancer-ization of cancer survivorship
"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing 'work' and 'return to work' in the context of primary bone cancer
Staging Bone Marrow Donation as a Ballot
Bariatric Biosociality
Living in Prognosis
The logic of small samples in interview-based qualitative research
Cancer
(Bio)Sociality and HIV in Tanzania
Candi(e)d Action
Health Identities and Subjectivities
Cancer Rehabilitation in Denmark
Chronic illness as biographical disruption
Cultivating the Therapeutic Self in China
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |