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Author Armstrong-Hough, Mari, author

Title Biomedicalization and the practice of culture : globalization and type 2 diabetes in the United States and Japan / Mari Armstrong-Hough
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in social medicine
Studies in social medicine.
Contents Two countries, one disease -- Biomedicalization and globalization -- Cavemen didn't get diabetes: American narratives about the origins of type 2 diabetes -- Our genes don't match your culture: Japanese narratives about the origins of type 2 diabetes -- Your diabetes: U.S. health care providers' orientations towards patients -- Our diabetes: diabetes in the Japanese exam room -- Diabetes at home: explanatory models in everyday practice -- Diabetes and its discontents
Summary Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this text, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise in and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Type 2 diabetes -- United States
Type 2 diabetes -- Japan
Type 2 diabetes -- Treatment -- United States
Type 2 diabetes -- Treatment -- Japan
Type 2 diabetes -- Social aspects -- United States
Type 2 diabetes -- Social aspects -- Japan
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes -- Social aspects
Type 2 diabetes -- Treatment
Japan
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469646695
1469646692
9781469646701
1469646706