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The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism Maren Klawiter Table of Contents		$25.00 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5108-5 ISBN-10: 0-8166-5108-6 $75.00 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5107-8 ISBN-10: 0-8166-5107-8
Winner of the Charles Tilly Award for the Best Book in Collective Behavior and Social Movements and Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology 2009 Robert K. Merton Book Award A richly textured analysis of the body politics of breast cancer activism. 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. “Biopolitics offers valuable history, especially for medical students, those interested in the sociology of medicine, and patients.” —Choice “The book’s complete discussion of both the cultural history of breast cancer as well as various types of activism around the disease make this book useful for a variety of pedagogical, activist, and policy situations.” —Mobilization Maren Klawiter holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of Michigan, and an assistant professor in science, medicine, and technology studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently pursuing a law degree at Yale University. 408 pages | 16 b&w photos, 2 tables | 6 x 9 | 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction: Mapping the Contours of Breast Cancer 1. Social Movements without the Sovereign Part I. Breast Cancer in Two Regimes 2. The Regime of Medicalization 3. Biomedicalization and the Biopolitics of Screening 4. Biomedicalization and the Anatomo-Politics of Treatment Part II. Cultures of Action in the Bay Area 5. Early Detection and Screening Activism 6. Patient Empowerment and Feminist Treatment Activism 7. Cancer Prevention and Environmental Risk Part III. From Private Stigma to Public Actions 8. The Impact of Disease Regimes and Social Movements on Illness Experience 9. Breast Cancer in the Twenty-first Century Conclusion: The Body Politics of Social Movements Appendix: Multisited Ethnography and the Extended Case Method Notes Index

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