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Cancer Previval and the Theatrical Fact
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 56, Number 4, Winter 2012 (T216)
- pp. 104-120
- Article
- Additional Information
Healthy women who are at hereditary risk for developing breast and ovarian cancer are surgically enacting the disease in material registers on their flesh in order to survive cancer in advance. In this practice of "previval," the disease becomes itself, or gains biomedical substance, through its own theatrical gesture.