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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