Biomedicalization and the practice of culture : globalization and type 2 diabetes in the United States and Japan /
Armstrong-Hough, Mari,
Biomedicalization and the practice of culture : globalization and type 2 diabetes in the United States and Japan / Mari Armstrong-Hough. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource - Studies in social medicine .
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.
9781469646695 9781469646701
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.
Electronic Books.
RC662 / .B566 2018
Biomedicalization and the practice of culture : globalization and type 2 diabetes in the United States and Japan / Mari Armstrong-Hough. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource - Studies in social medicine .
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.
9781469646695 9781469646701
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.
Electronic Books.
RC662 / .B566 2018