Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan
(Part of the Studies in Social Medicine Series)
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Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise in and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have faced rising rates of diabetes, but their social and biomedical responses to its ascendance have diverged. To explain the emergence of these distinctive strategies, Armstrong-Hough argues that physicians...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469646684
ISBN13:9781469646688
Release Date:December 2018
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:186 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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