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“In India, where patients are almost always diagnosed at late stages of disease progression, pain is an overwhelming part of cancer,” writes Dwaipayan Banerjee in his book Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi, published by Duke University Press. His research focuses on palliative cancer care — “a biomedical specialisation founded in the possibility of understanding, intervening in, and easing pain” — and what it offers the urban poor in India’s capital. Their attempts to live with, and alongside cancer, while negotiating the infrastructural failures of the public health system, are at the heart of this volume.
The ethnographic fieldwork
