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Taming Time: Configuring Cancer Patients as Research Subjects.

This article explores how incurable cancer patients in the affluent Danish welfare state are recruited to clinical trials. We show that patients' impending death constitutes their potential for being configured as research subjects. To produce valuable data, patients who enroll in trials and health...

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Published in:Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 386 - 402
Main Authors: Bogicevic, Ivana, Svendsen, Mette N.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2021
Subjects:
Medical personnel
Clinical trials
Terminally ill
Cancer patients
Cancer research
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