The biopolitics of breast cancer
changing cultures of disease and activism
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Author
Publication
2008 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
99,250 words, Guess
Page Count
397 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100816651078
- ISBN-100816651086
- ISBN-139780816651078
- ISBN-139780816651085
- Goodreads4689674', '6702935
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2007050521
- OCLC Control Number183831436
- Better World Books9780816651085
- Better World Books9780816651078
- Open LibraryOL23611622M
Classifications
- DDC362.196/99449
- LCCRC280.B8 K568 2008
- LCCRC280.B8K568 2008
Description
Analyzes the evolution of the breast cancer movement to show the broad social impact of how diseases come to be medically managed and publicly administered. Examining surgical procedures, adjuvant therapies, early detection campaigns, and the rise in discourses of risk, Klawiter demonstrates that these practices created a change in the social relations—if not the mortality rate—of breast cancer that initially inhibited, but later enabled, collective action. Her research focuses on the emergence and development of new forms of activism that range from grassroots patient empowerment to environmental activism and corporate-funded breast cancer awareness. From publisher description.
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