Title Diabetes : a history of race and disease / Arleen Marcia Tuchman

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps (black and white) Contents Judenkrankeit a Jewish malady -- Whiteness, self-restraint, and citizenship -- Misunderstanding the African American experience -- Native peoples and the thrifty gene hypothesis -- A nationwide hunt for hidden disease -- Epilogue: Diabetes and race since 1985 Summary Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman describes how at different times Jews, middle-class whites, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans have been labeled most at risk for developing diabetes, and that such claims have reflected and perpetuated troubling assumptions about race, ethnicity, and class. She describes how diabetes underwent a mid-century transformation in the public's eye from being a disease of wealth and "civilization" to one of poverty and "primitive" populations. In tracing this cultural history, Tuchman argues that shifting understandings of diabetes reveal just as much about scientific and medical beliefs as they do about the cultural, racial, and economic milieus of their time Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record; online resource viewed January 13, 2021 Print version record Subject Diabetes -- United States -- History Diabetes -- United States -- Genetic aspects Diabetes -- Social aspects -- United States Diabetes Mellitus -- history Diabetes Mellitus -- genetics Race Factors MEDICAL -- History. Diabetes Diabetes -- Genetic aspects Diabetes -- Social aspects SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0300256302 9780300256307

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