出版社：East European Anthropology Group and SOYUZ (the Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies)
摘要：Advanced technologies are the key factor in medical progress and quality of care. However, their implementation creates knowledge, social needs, practices and responses. I argue, based on my ethnographic research conducted from 2009 to 2012 in Warsaw and Białystok (Poland), that technologies play a crucial role in biographies and narratives of people suffering from cancer. This is especially clear when talking with and about patient`s ills family in the context of gene-related technologies. In this article I analyze a body of interviews conducted with people families in which cancer was a common disease. Their ideas and beliefs about care, aetiology and character of disease were strongly medicalized. The definition of family and ties were under a strong influence of new language and technologies derived from gene-related medicine. As a result, “technobonds” – a new definition and representation of family relations can be observed. Techobonds might be perceived as a new form of “internal, familiar care” – a subjective project created by lay people confronted with biomedical knowledge and practices but also with life-challenging emotions like fear and uncertainty.
其他摘要：Advanced technologies are the key factor in medical progress and quality of care. However, their implementation creates knowledge, social needs, practices and responses. I argue, based on my ethnographic research conducted from 2009 to 2012 in Warsaw and Białystok (Poland), that technologies play a crucial role in biographies and narratives of people suffering from cancer. This is especially clear when talking with and about patient`s ills family in the context of gene-related technologies. In this article I analyze a body of interviews conducted with people families in which cancer was a common disease. Their ideas and beliefs about care, aetiology and character of disease were strongly medicalized. The definition of family and ties were under a strong influence of new language and technologies derived from gene-related medicine. As a result, “technobonds” – a new definition and representation of family relations can be observed. Techobonds might be perceived as a new form of “internal, familiar care” – a subjective project created by lay people confronted with biomedical knowledge and practices but also with life-challenging emotions like fear and uncertainty.
