With recent emphasis on “cancer epidemics” in Asia and Africa (Banerjee 2020; Travis 2007; Lingwood et al. 2008) it has become increasingly clear that cancer is not only a problem of the wealthy or the global north but a matter of global concern. In the past decade, there has been a particularly significant expansion in […]
Podcast with Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Research Associate, King’s College London, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. This episode takes us to northern India to unpack the complex politics of morphine care for cancer patients. Nickolas shares with us stories from his doctoral work in India in hospitals where morphine stocking […]
Podcast with Clémence Schantz, sociologist and midwife, Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) – Ceped UMR 196, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. In this episode we speak with Clémence Schantz, midwife and sociologist, about her research with women diagnosed with breast cancer in Mali. […]
Podcast with Cecilia Van Hollen, Professor at Georgetown University, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). This next episode of the podcast takes us to South India. Cecilia Van Hollen narrates the personal and intellectual journey behind her latest book, Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India […]
Podcast with Chen Ying, Lecturer, National University of Singapore, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In her ethnographic study among Qigong patient groups near Shanghai (China), Chen Ying describes the emergence of an activist movement whose objective is to cure cancer through the practice of Guo Lin […]
Podcast with Luiz Alves Araújo Neto, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of Science and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz, Brazil, in discussion with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. In his historical research on cancer epidemiology in Brazil, Luiz Alves Araújo Neto draws attention […]
Podcast with Caro Caduff, Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. While conducting research on the National Cancer Grid in India, Carlo Caduff, medical anthropologist and STS scholar, discusses how in […]
Podcast with Marissa Mika, writer and editor, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. In this episode we travel to Uganda to hear the riveting story of the Uganda Cancer Institute. Following the publication of her long-anticipated book, Africanizing Oncology, we talk to Marissa about the tumultuous, long and vibrant history […]
Héloïse Pillayre, postdoctoral researcher, Sciences Po, Lyon, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In this episode, sociologist Héloïse Pillayre recounts her doctoral and postdoctoral journeys, beginning with her study of the controversies surrounding cancer as an occupational disease in France. She then delves into her more recent […]
Nils Graber, postdoctoral fellow, History of Science Department at Humboldt University, Berlin, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In this episode, we delve into the scholarly journey of Nils Graber, where the ethnographic exploration of immunotherapy within the healthcare systems of Cuba and Switzerland reveals a narrative […]
Noemi Tousignant, Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. In this episode, we hear from Noemi Tousignant about the history of knowledge production, vaccine trials and economic infrastructures which help us […]
Podcast with Ruth Prince, Professor of Medial Anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. In this episode we speak to Ruth Prince, a medical anthropologist with decades of experience working in western Kenya. We chat to Ruth about her latest […]
