Biomedicalization and the practice of culture : globalization and type 2 diabetes in the United States and Japan / Mari Armstrong-Hough.
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TextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781469646695
- 9781469646701
- RC662 .B566 2018
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Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
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