Original empirical essays from across the globe demonstrate how the study of cancer promotes theoretical understandings of the politics and pragmatics of suffering, and offers insights into the meanings of survivorship, risk, charity and care in transnational contexts.

Foreword: The Emperor of All Terrors: Forging an Alternative Biography of Cancer Anastasia Karakasidou. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Mapping the Landscape of Transnational Cancer Ethnography Holly F. Mathews and Nancy J. Burke Part I: Structural Matters: Technologies of Disease, Risk, and Management 1. The Ambiguity of Blame and the Multiple Careers of Cancer Etiologies in Rural China Anna Lora-Wainwright 2. The Psychogenesis of Cancer in France: Controlling Uncertainty by Searching for Causes Aline Sarradon-Eck 3. Anticipating Prevention: Constituting Clinical Need, Rights and Resources in Brazilian Cancer Genetics Sahra Gibbon 4. Managing Borders, Bodies and Cancer: Documents and the Creation of Subjects Julie S. Armin 5. Filipina, Survivor, or Both?: Negotiating Biosociality and Ethnicity in the Context of Scarcity Nancy J. Burke 6. Revealing Hope in Urban India: Vision and Survivorship Among Breast Cancer Charity Volunteers Alison MacDonald Part II: Cancer and the Sociality of Care: Intimacy, Support, and Collective Burden-Sharing 7. Love in the Time of Cancer: Kinship, Memory, Migration and Other Logics of Care in Kerala, India Kristen Bright 8. Cancer Crisis and Treatment Ambiguity in Kenya Benson A. Mulemi 9. From Part to Whole: Gender Roles and Health Practices in the Experience of Breast Cancer in Northeast Brazil Waleska de Araújo Aureliano 10. "As God Is My Witness...": What Is Said, What Is Silenced in Informal Cancer Caregivers' Narratives Natalia Luxardo 11. Suffering in Local Worlds: Oncological Discourses, Cancer and Infertility in Puerto Rico Karen E. Dyer 12. Dying to Be Heard: Cancer, Imagined Experience and the Moral Geographies of Care in the UK Fiona M. Harris Afterword: Cancer Enigmas and Agendas Lenore Manderson