BIOMEDICALIZATION AND THE PRACTICE OF CULTURE by Mari Armstrong-Hough ( 9781469646688 )

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BIOMEDICALIZATION AND THE PRACTICE OF CULTURE
GLOBALIZATION AND TYPE 2 DIABETES IN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN

By:

Mari Armstrong-Hough

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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Pub. date:

30 December, 2018

Series:

Studies in Social Medicine

Pages:

176

Description:

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.

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