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Subject(s)

• Breast—Cancer—Political aspects—United States [Browse]
• Biopolitics—United States [Browse]

Summary note

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

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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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ISBN

• 9780816656660
• 0816656665

OCLC

• 476203191
• 297118094

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