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Autore: |
Klawiter Maren
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Titolo: |
The biopolitics of breast cancer [[electronic resource] ] : changing cultures of disease and activism / / Maren Klawiter
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.196/99449 |
Soggetto topico: | Breast - Cancer - Political aspects - United States |
Biopolitics - United States | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The biopolitics of breast cancer ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8166-5666-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910782779303321 |
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