TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armstrong-Hough,Mari
TI  - Biomedicalization and the practice of culture: globalization and type 2 diabetes in the United States and Japan 
T2  - Studies in social medicine
SN  - 9781469646695
AV  - RC662 .B566 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Type 2 diabetes
KW  - United States
KW  - Japan
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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