The changing cultures of disease and activism Klawiter, Maren. creator text bibliography mnu Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2008 monographic eng

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397 p. : ill. 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 Maren Klawiter. YT2025 M09 Breast Cancer Political aspects United States Biopolitics United States Breast Neoplasms Cultural Characteristics Feminism Politics RC280 K63 B 2008 9780816651078 0816651078 9780816651085 0816651086 SDU 071211