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Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan - Studies in Social Medicine
Mari Armstrong-Hough
Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan - Studies in Social Medicine
Mari Armstrong-Hough
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.
176 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 30, 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781469646688 |
Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 176 |
Dimensions | 155 × 235 × 12 mm · 294 g |
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