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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 Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 17, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469646671 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 176 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 467 g |
| Language | English |