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Mari Armstrong-Hough

Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan

Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan

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Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2018
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

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.


Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781469646688

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