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Subject(s)

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

Bibliographic references

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

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.

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ISBN

• 9780816651078 (hc : alk. paper)
• 0816651078 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9780816651085 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0816651086 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007050521

OCLC

183831436

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