Mari Armstrong-Hough

Broschiertes Buch

Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture

Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Mari Armstrong-Hough is a medical sociologist and epidemiologist at the Yale University School of Public Health.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Social Medicine
• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9781469646688
• ISBN-10: 1469646684
• Artikelnr.: 52155148