Oliver Henke, Working Group Leader at University Hospital Bonn, shared a post on LinkedIn about a paper he co-authored with colleagues, published in BMJ Global Health:
“Provincialising Global Oncology!
The essence of discussions during a workshop, led by the King’s College of London, at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva last year, has been published as a commentary in BMJ Global Health.
I am pleased to have had the chance to contribute to the workshop and the commentary.
‘In short, what we need is not the spread of a singular, monolithic ‘global oncology’, but numerous different ‘oncologies’, embedded in and cognisant of the epistemologies, politics and care infrastructures of individual locations.
Whereas recent critics of Global Oncology have argued that the future of the field is one ‘beyond borders’ – a universalising phenomenon that unites diverse communities in the common vision of reducing equity gaps – we encourage policymakers and physicians to ‘provincialise oncology’ – to locate it within a particular place and context, and rob it of its supposed universal or transcendental character as the only oncology.
By doing this, we can better understand and strengthen the politics, epistemics, and practices of the field.’
It was a great experience to discuss with various disciplines from anthropologists to epidemiologists, historians, and oncologists, and shed light from different angles on the concept of ‘global oncology’.”
Title: Provincialising Global Oncology
Authors: Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Shagufta Bhangu, Henry Llewellyn, Jennifer Fraser, Thandeka Cochrane, Philip Jagessar, David Reubi, Carlo Caduff, Freddie Bray, Nils Graber, Oliver Henke, Jorge Alberto Bernstein Iriart, Benson A Azariah Mulemi, Robert Newton, Ruth Prince, Clémence Schantz, Manju Sengar, and Bhawna Sirohi
You can read the Full Article in BMJ Global Health.
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