Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease
A critical study of diabetes in the popular imaginationOver twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine percent of the population, have some form of diabetes. In Managing Diabetes, Jeffrey A. Bennett focuses on how the disease is imagined in public culture. Bennett argues that popular anecdotes, media representation, and communal myths are as meaningful as medical and scientific understandings of the disease. In focusing on the public character of the disease, Bennett looks at health campaigns and promotions as well as the debate over public figures like Sonia Sotomayor and her management of type 1 diabetes. Bennett examin…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4798-3528-7
- EAN: 9781479835287
- Produktnummer: 29092842
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 363 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 13
- Gewicht: 363
Über den Autor
Jeffrey A. Bennett is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease (2019) and Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance (2009).
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