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

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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 people's transformation from patients to patient activists. Maren Klawiter analyzes the evolu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klawiter, Maren (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Breast > Cancer > Political aspects > United States.
Biopolitics > United States.
Manners and customs.
Feminism.
Politics, Practical.
Breast Neoplasms
Cultural Characteristics
Feminism
Politics
Sein > Cancer > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Biopolitique > États-Unis.
Mœurs et coutumes.
Féminisme.
Politique.
feminism.
politics.
customs (social concepts)
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Politics, Practical
Manners and customs
Biopolitics
Breast > Cancer > Political aspects
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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