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

By: Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.Description: xxxi, 397 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780816651078 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816651085 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.196/99449 22
LOC classification:
  • RC280.B8 K568 2008
NLM classification:
  • WP 870
Contents:
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.

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.

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