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: 978-1-4798-7303-6
- EAN: 9781479873036
- Produktnummer: 29013559
- Verlag: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 18'447 KB
- Abbildungen: 9 black and white illustrations
- Reihenbandnummer: 13
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Jeffrey A. Bennett
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