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

Englisch

Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.] : Univ. of Minnesota Press, c 2008

XXXI, 397 S : Ill ; cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

0805

0-8166-5108-6 pb : alk. paper

978-0-8166-5107-8 hc : alk. paper

978-0-8166-5108-5 : pb : alk. paper

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

*USA / Brustkrebs / Feminismus / Bürgerrechtsbewegung / Politischer Wandel

*Breast -- Cancer -- Political aspects -- United States ; Biopolitics -- United States

*Breast Neoplasms ; Cultural Characteristics ; Feminism ; Politics

2008 J-077 ; WP 870

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: RC280.B8

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 362.196/99449;

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