The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism

Maren Klawiter - The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism
Published: 2008-06-18 | ISBN: 0816651086, 0816651078 | PDF | 384 pages | 3 MB

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.
Maren Klawiter 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.
The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer opens a window onto a larger set of
changes currently transforming medically advanced societies and
ultimately challenges our understanding of the origins, politics, and
future of the breast cancer movement.
Maren Klawiter holds a PhD in sociology from the University of
California, Berkeley. She is currently pursuing a law degree at Yale
University.


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