The biopolitics of breast cancer : changing cultures of disease and activism / / Maren Klawiter

• Autore: Klawiter Maren
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• 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.: 9910812867603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II