The biopolitics of breast cancer : changing cultures of disease and activism /
Klawiter, Maren.
The biopolitics of breast cancer : changing cultures of disease and activism / Maren Klawiter. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008. - xxxi, 397 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index.
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.
9780816651078 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816651085 (pb : alk. paper)
2007050521
Breast--Cancer--Political aspects--United States.
Biopolitics--United States.
Breast Neoplasms.
Cultural Characteristics.
Feminism.
Politics.
RC280.B8 / K568 2008
362.196/99449
WP 870 / K63b 2008
The biopolitics of breast cancer : changing cultures of disease and activism / Maren Klawiter. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008. - xxxi, 397 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index.
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.
9780816651078 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816651085 (pb : alk. paper)
2007050521
Breast--Cancer--Political aspects--United States.
Biopolitics--United States.
Breast Neoplasms.
Cultural Characteristics.
Feminism.
Politics.
RC280.B8 / K568 2008
362.196/99449
WP 870 / K63b 2008