The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer

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ISBN: 9780816651085 | 0816651086
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/18/2008

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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. The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer turns this understanding upside down.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Acronyms	p. xiii
Introduction: Mapping the Contours of Breast Cancer	p. xvii
Social Movements without the Sovereign	p. 1
Breast Cancer in Two Regimes
The Regime of Medicalization	p. 51
Biomedicalization and the Biopolitics of Screening	p. 85
Biomedicalization and the Anatomo-Politics of Treatment	p. 105
Cultures of Action in the Bay Area
Early Detection and Screening Activism	p. 131
Patient Empowerment and Feminist Treatment Activism	p. 163
Cancer Prevention and Environmental Risk	p. 199
From Private Stigma to Public Actions
The Impact of Disease Regimes and Social Movements on Illness Experience	p. 229
Breast Cancer in the Twenty-first Century	p. 247
Conclusion: The Body Politics of Social Movements	p. 277
Multisited Ethnography and the Extended Case Method	p. 297
Notes	p. 311
Index	p. 365
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