Biomedicalization And The Practice Of Culture: Globalization And Type 2 Diabetes In The United States And Japan

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.

• | By (Author): Mari Armstrong-Hough
• | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 17, 2018
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1469646684
• | ISBN-13: 9781469646688