The biopolitics of breast cancer
Subtitle: changing cultures of disease and activism
By: Maren Klawiter.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780816651078; 9780816651085
Subjects: Breast -- Cancer -- Political aspects -- United States; Biopolitics -- United States; Breast Neoplasms; Cultural Characteristics; Feminism; Politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Mapping the contours of breast cancer; title: Social movements without the sovereign; title: Breast cancer in two regimes; title: The regime of medicalization; title: Biomedicalization and the biopolitics of screening; title: Biomedicalization and the anatomo-politics of treatment; title: Cultures of action in the Bay Area; title: Early detection and screening activism; title: Patient empowerment and feminist treatment activism; title: Cancer prevention and environmental risk; title: From private stigma to public actions; title: The impact of disease regimes and social movements on illness experience; title: Breast cancer in the twenty-first century; title: Conclusion : The body politics of social movements; title: Appendix : Multisited ethnography and the extended case method.