The biopolitics of breast cancer : changing cultures of disease and activism / Maren Klawiter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klawiter, Maren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Cancer--Political aspects--United States.

Breast.

Biopolitics--United States.

Biopolitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For nearly forty years, feminists and patient activists have argued that medicine is a deeply individualizing and depoliticizing institution. According to this view, medical practices are incidental to peopleÕs transformation from patients to patient acti

Contents:

Introduction : Mapping the contours of breast cancer

Social movements without the sovereign

Breast cancer in two regimes

The regime of medicalization

Biomedicalization and the biopolitics of screening

Biomedicalization and the anatomo-politics of treatment

Cultures of action in the Bay Area

Early detection and screening activism

Patient empowerment and feminist treatment activism

Cancer prevention and environmental risk

From private stigma to public actions

The impact of disease regimes and social movements on illness experience

Breast cancer in the twenty-first century

Conclusion : The body politics of social movements

Appendix : Multisited ethnography and the extended case method.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index.

ISBN:

9780816656660

0816656665

OCLC:

476203191