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Managing Diabetes - The Cultural Politics of Disease (Hardcover)
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Managing Diabetes - The Cultural Politics of Disease (Hardcover)
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A critical study of diabetes in the popular imagination Over
twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine
percent of the population, have some form of diabetes. In Managing
Diabetes, Jeffrey A. Bennett focuses on how the disease is imagined
in public culture. Bennett argues that popular anecdotes, media
representation, and communal myths are as meaningful as medical and
scientific understandings of the disease. In focusing on the public
character of the disease, Bennett looks at health campaigns and
promotions as well as the debate over public figures like Sonia
Sotomayor and her management of type 1 diabetes. Bennett examines
the confusing and contradictory public depictions of diabetes to
demonstrate how management of the disease is not only clinical but
also cultural. Bennett also has type 1 diabetes and speaks from
personal experience about the many misunderstandings and myths that
are alive in the popular imagination. Ultimately, Managing Diabetes
offers a fresh take on how disease is understood in contemporary
society and the ways that stigma, fatalism, and health can
intersect to shape diabetes's public character. This disease has
dire health implications, and rates keep rising. Bennett argues
that until it is better understood it cannot be better treated.
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