Therapeutic Values in Cancer Care

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Acknowledgments

We thank Lenore Manderson, Victoria Team, Rebecca Marsland and James Staples and a considerable number of anonymous reviewers of Medical Anthropology for bringing this special issue to fruition. The idea to prepare this issue, and some of the articles contained therein, were born at the conference “Crafting Values in Cancer Care” that took place in September 2018 at University College London. We thank the UCL Cancer Network, the Octagon Fund and the Department of Anthropology at UCL for their generous support for that event.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

¹ The inclusion of the article “Emotion work during colorectal cancer treatments” in this special section was a post-editorial decision. Although the remit of both the article and special section overlap, the guest editors did not plan to include this article in the present collection and therefore its argument is not part of the introduction and associated afterword.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Philomathia Social Sciences Programme University of Cambridge.

Notes on contributors

Ignacia Arteaga Pérez

Dr Ignacia Arteaga Pérez is a Philomathia Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Sahra Gibbon

Dr Sahra Gibbon is a Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology. University College London.

Anne Lanceley

Dr Anne Lanceley is a Professor of Women’s Cancer Care at the EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London.