02782nam 2200589Ia 450 991045453060332120200520144314.00-8166-5666-5(CKB)1000000000691737(EBL)367975(OCoLC)476203191(SSID)ssj0000112251(PQKBManifestationID)11137883(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112251(PQKBWorkID)10081676(PQKB)11206460(MiAaPQ)EBC367975(OCoLC)297118094(MdBmJHUP)muse38840(Au-PeEL)EBL367975(CaPaEBR)ebr10255183(CaONFJC)MIL523014(EXLCZ)99100000000069173720071211d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe biopolitics of breast cancer[electronic resource] changing cultures of disease and activism /Maren KlawiterMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (432 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5108-6 0-8166-5107-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index.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.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 actiBreastCancerPolitical aspectsUnited StatesBiopoliticsUnited StatesElectronic books.BreastCancerPolitical aspectsBiopolitics362.196/99449Klawiter Maren883313MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454530603321The biopolitics of breast cancer1973009UNINA