Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture - Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan (Paperback)

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have faced rising rates of diabetes, but their social and biomedical responses to its ascendance have diverged. To explain the emergence of distinctive strategies to explain and manage diabetes, Armstrong-Hough argues that physicians act on not only increasingly globalized professional standards but also on local knowledge, explanatory models, and cultural toolkits. As a result, strategies for clinical management diverge sharply from one country to another. Armstrong-Hough demonstrates how distinctive practices endure in the midst of intensifying biomedicalization, both on the part of patients and on the part of physicians, and how these differences grow from broader cultural narratives about diabetes in each setting.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Social Medicine
Release date:	December 2018
Authors:	Mari Armstrong-Hough
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-4668-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Endocrinology > Diabetes Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
LSN:	1-4696-4668-4
Barcode:	9781469646688

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