Klawiter, Maren. <br/><br/>
The biopolitics of breast cancer :  changing cultures of disease and activism / 
Maren Klawiter. 
 - Minneapolis :  University of Minnesota Press,  2008. 
 - 397 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>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. HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M09 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780816651078 0816651078 9780816651085 0816651086 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Breast--Cancer--Political aspects--United States.<br/>Biopolitics--United States.<br/>Breast Neoplasms.<br/>Cultural Characteristics.<br/>Feminism.<br/>Politics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC280  / K63 B 2008