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Klawiter Maren |
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The biopolitics of breast cancer [[electronic resource] ] : changing cultures of disease and activism / / Maren Klawiter |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (432 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Breast - Cancer - Political aspects - United States |
Biopolitics - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 peopleOĢs transformation from patients to patient acti |
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