Armstrong-Hough, Mari, <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469646695 9781469646701 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Type 2 diabetes--United States.<br/>Type 2 diabetes--Japan.<br/>Type 2 diabetes--Treatment--United States.<br/>Type 2 diabetes--Treatment--Japan.<br/>Type 2 diabetes--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Type 2 diabetes--Social aspects--Japan.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC662  / .B566 2018