Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-364) and index.

Introduction : Mapping the contours of breast cancer -- Social movements without the sovereign -- Breast cancer in two regimes -- The regime of medicalization -- Biomedicalization and the biopolitics of screening -- Biomedicalization and the anatomo-politics of treatment -- Cultures of action in the Bay Area -- Early detection and screening activism -- Patient empowerment and feminist treatment activism -- Cancer prevention and environmental risk -- From private stigma to public actions -- The impact of disease regimes and social movements on illness experience -- Breast cancer in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion : The body politics of social movements -- Appendix : Multisited ethnography and the extended case method.