Studies in social medicine biomedicalization and the practice of culture

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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 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.



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 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 distinctive strategies to explain and manage diabetes, Armstrong-Hough argues that physicians act on not only increasingly globalized professional standards but also on local knowledge, explanatory models, and cultural toolkits. As a result, strategies for clinical management diverge sharply from one country to another. Armstrong-Hough demonstrates how distinctive practices endure in the midst of intensifying biomedicalization, both on the part of patients and on the part of physicians, and how these differences grow from broader cultural narratives about diabetes in each setting.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 december 2018

Aantal pagina's: 176

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Mari Armstrong-Hough

Hoofduitgeverij: The University Of North Carolina Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 155 mm

Product lengte: 235 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 155 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 235 mm

Verpakking lengte: 235 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 227 g

EAN: 9781469646671

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