1. Social Movements Without the Sovereign: Risky Subjects, Disease Regimes, and the Breast Cancer Continuum.
- Author
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Klawiter, Maren
- Subjects
SOCIAL movements ,BREAST cancer ,PUBLIC health ,MASS mobilization ,CANCER patients - Abstract
This paper introduces the concept of disease regime and uses it to tell a different story about the origins of the U.S. breast cancer movement. This account challenges structuralist approaches to the study of social movements by shifting attention from the State to the discourses and practices of science, public health and medicine. Drawing on original research and the work of medical historians and sociologists, I argue that it was changes in the regime of practices through which breast cancer was scientifically investigated, discursively represented, medically managed, publicly administered, and as a result, socially structured and subjectively experienced, that facilitated the development of the breast cancer movement. I conceptualize this transformation as a shift from a regime of sickness to a regime of risk and I examine these changes along two dimensions: the anatomo-politics of individual bodies and the biopolitics of populations. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2006