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The biopolitics of breast cancer : changing cultures of disease and activism
- Title
- The biopolitics of breast cancer : changing cultures of disease and activism / Maren Klawiter.
- Author
- Klawiter, Maren.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008], ©2008.
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Details
- Description
- xxxi, 397 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Mapping the Contours of Breast Cancer -- 1. Social Movements without the Sovereign -- Pt. I. Breast Cancer in Two Regimes -- 2. The Regime of Medicalization -- 3. Biomedicalization and the Biopolitics of Screening -- 4. Biomedicalization and the Anatomo-Politics of Treatment -- Pt. II. Cultures of Action in the Bay Area -- 5. Early Detection and Screening Activism -- 6. Patient Empowerment and Feminist Treatment Activism -- 7. Cancer Prevention and Environmental Risk -- Pt. III. From Private Stigma to Public Actions -- 8. The Impact of Disease Regimes and Social Movements on Illness Experience -- 9. Breast Cancer in the Twenty-first Century -- Conclusion: The Body Politics of Social Movements -- App. Multisited Ethnography and the Extended Case Method.
- ISBN
- 9780816651078 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0816651078 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816651085 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0816651086 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007050521
- OCLC
- ocn183831436
- 183831436
- SCSB-8855774
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries