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Urban Inequalities‘Either You Have Money and Plan Your Treatment, or You Don’t Have Money and Plan Your Death’: Tracing Inequalities in Breast Cancer Care in Greece

Urban Inequalities: ‘Either You Have Money and Plan Your Treatment, or You Don’t Have Money and... [This chapter examines the relationship between biomedicine and new forms of subjectivity in the post-genomic era. I use the example of the OncotypeDX® breast cancer test, the value of which is based on its clinical value for planning personalized treatment, to discuss critically the ways of accessing personalized medicine, and specifically molecular tests like the OncotypeDX®, that the public health system in Greece provides for cancer patients. The stratification of cancer patients based on molecular data is not confined only to the biomarkers that construct the ‘biological body’ and define which bodies are eligible for specific treatments; it is further embedded in a regime of ‘ethopolitics’ that builds a framework in which cancer patients are responsible for their health and the knowledge of their body at a molecular level. It is also strongly related to socioeconomic aspects such as the age and the economic profile of the patient.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Urban Inequalities‘Either You Have Money and Plan Your Treatment, or You Don’t Have Money and Plan Your Death’: Tracing Inequalities in Breast Cancer Care in Greece

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Pardo, Italo; Prato, Giuliana B.
Varelaki, Falia
Urban Inequalities — Jan 6, 2021
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-51723-6
Pages
129 –144
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-51724-3_7
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Abstract

[This chapter examines the relationship between biomedicine and new forms of subjectivity in the post-genomic era. I use the example of the OncotypeDX® breast cancer test, the value of which is based on its clinical value for planning personalized treatment, to discuss critically the ways of accessing personalized medicine, and specifically molecular tests like the OncotypeDX®, that the public health system in Greece provides for cancer patients. The stratification of cancer patients based on molecular data is not confined only to the biomarkers that construct the ‘biological body’ and define which bodies are eligible for specific treatments; it is further embedded in a regime of ‘ethopolitics’ that builds a framework in which cancer patients are responsible for their health and the knowledge of their body at a molecular level. It is also strongly related to socioeconomic aspects such as the age and the economic profile of the patient.]

Published: Jan 6, 2021

Keywords: Breast cancer; Inequalities; Stratification; Ethnopolitics; Medical consumer

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