Treatments : language, politics, and the culture of illness / Lisa Diedrich.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007], ©2007.

xxiv, 224 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.

Introduction : Doing treatments -- 1. Patients and biopower : disciplined bodies, regularized populations, and subjugated knowledges -- 2. Politicizing patienthood : ideas, experience, and affect -- 3. Stories for and against the self : breast cancer narratives from the United States and Britain -- 4. Becoming-patient : negotiating healing, desire, and belonging in doctors' narratives -- 5. Between two deaths : practices of witnessing -- Conclusion : Toward an ethics of failure -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.