Produktbild
Jeffrey A. Bennett

Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease

Buch

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… Mehr

CHF 39.50

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

Produktdetails


  • 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).

4 weitere Werke von Jeffrey A. Bennett:


Bewertungen


0 von 0 Bewertungen

Geben Sie eine Bewertung ab!

Teilen Sie Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Produkt mit anderen Kunden.