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The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer : Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.