Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease

(Part of the Biopolitics Series)

by Jeffrey A. Bennett

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A critical study of diabetes in the popular imagination

Over twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine percent of the population, have some form of diabetes. In Managing Diabetes, Jeffrey A. Bennett focuses on how the disease is imagined in public culture. Bennett argues that popular anecdotes, media representation, and communal myths are as meaningful as medical and scientific understandings of the disease...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1479835285

ISBN13:9781479835287

Release Date:June 2019

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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