title: Risking 'Safety': Breast Cancer, Prognosis, and the Strategic Enterprise of Life.
abstract: Living in modern biopolitical risk culture might be seen as synonymous with living in prognosis time, in the sense that risk of illness is endlessly forecast (prognosticated) in the broad social arena. 'Safety,' in this context, is framed as the anticipatory guarding against risk or disease in order to 'make live.' Thinking of risk and safety in these ways is limited, however, in that the prognosis cannot account for the individual's life or death drama. This paper asks: how are we to understand the constellation of risk, prognosis, and safety in relation to 'the subject in breast cancer prognosis'?
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Law, Humanities, and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. nadine.ehlers@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Nadine
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ehlers
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012306:Risk
keywords: Biopolitics; Breast cancer; Prognosis; Risk; Safety