changing cultures of disease and activism
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Klawiter, Maren
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2008
- Thesaurus
- borstkanker, sociale bewegingen, vrouwenorganisaties, geneeskunde, preventie, theorieën, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- 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, early detection campaigns, and the rise in discourses of risk, Klawiter demonstrated that these practices initially inhibited, but later enabled, collective action. The book focusses on the emergence of new forms of activism, from grassroots patient empowerment to corporate-funded breast cancer awareness. The book ends with a chapter on the future of breast cancer (activism).