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Author Klawiter, Maren.

Title The biopolitics of breast cancer : changing cultures of disease and activism / Maren Klawiter
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description xxxi, 397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-364) and index
Subject Biopolitics -- United States.
Breast -- Cancer -- Political aspects -- United States.
LC no. 2007050521
ISBN 0816651078 (hc : alk. paper)
0816651086 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816651078 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816651085 (pb : alk. paper)