Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes - Racialised Constructions of 'Risky' South Asian Bodies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book explores the often contentious relationship between health, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the impact on South Asian groups. Using medical sociological and anthropological perspectives, it excavates racialised constructions of diabetes 'risk' within discourses, and highlights the contrasting counter narratives in people's accounts of their everyday lives. By identifying a number of components to the discursive, racialised construction of 'risky' South Asian bodies, this book problematises taken for granted understandings of culture, lifestyle and genetic risk. The mobilisation of these mechanisms in health science and interventions result in a racialising gaze, directed at groups already experiencing historically embedded race-related issues. The book situates these constructions of risk against the emergent, fluid and dynamic counter narratives to risk constructions. The new found momentum in genetic science is also critiqued in its formulation of racial-genetic risk, especially in the case of diabetes in South Asian groups, and is identified as perpetuating a series of racializing processes.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Harshad Keval
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	201
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-45702-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
LSN:	1-137-45702-3
Barcode:	9781137457028

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