1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782779303321

Autore

Klawiter Maren

Titolo

The biopolitics of breast cancer [[electronic resource] ] : changing cultures of disease and activism / / Maren Klawiter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-5666-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Disciplina

362.196/99449

Soggetti

Breast - Cancer - Political aspects - United States

Biopolitics - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 peopleÕs transformation from patients to patient acti



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816356003321

Autore

Wilce James MacLynn <1953->

Titolo

Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament / / James M. Wilce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

9786612026324

9781282026322

1282026321

9781444306248

1444306243

9781444306255

1444306251

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

306.44

393.9

393/.9

Soggetti

Crying

Laments

Mourning customs

Weepers (Mourners)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Locating Lament as Object; Introduction; 2 For Crying Out Loud: What is Lament Anyway?; 3 Lament and Emotion; 4 Antiquity, Metaculture, and the Control of Lament; Part II Losing Lament: Modernity as Loss; Introduction; 5 Cultural Amnesia and the Objectification of Lament in Bangladesh; 6 Modern Transformations; 7 How Shame Spreads in Modernity; 8 Crying Backward: Primitivist Representations of Lament; Part III Reviving Lament: Lament as Key Trope of Modernity; Introduction; 9 Mourning Becomes the Electron's Age: Lamenting Modernity(ies); 10 Lament's (Post)Modern Vertigo: Floating in a Deterritorialized Media Sea; 11 Lament in a Postmodern World of "Revivals"; 12 Conclusion; Notes;



References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent. Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context Draws on the author's extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenon Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernity An important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481123803321

Titolo

Liber physiognomiae

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Treviso, : Giovanni Rosso, 1483

Descrizione fisica

Online resource (v.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.