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

Informationen zum Autor Mari Armstrong-Hough is a medical sociologist and epidemiologist at the Yale University School of Public Health. Klappentext 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 in 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 these distinctive strategies! Armstrong-Hough argues that physicians act not only on 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mari Armstrong-Hough
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781469646671
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-4667-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Studies in Social Medicine; Studies in Social Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)