Mari Armstrong-Houg - Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture

Pages Count - 188. Binding type - Perfect.
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The item is a book Paperback
The Author Name is Mari Armstrong-Hough
The Title is Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture : Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan

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Pages Count - 188. Binding type - Perfect.
Category - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Diabetes


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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. To explain the emergence of distinctive strategies to explain and manage diabetes, Armstrong-Hough argues that physicians act on not only increasingly globalized professional standards but also on local knowledge, explanatory models, and cultural toolkits. As a result, strategies for clinical management diverge sharply from one country to another. Armstrong-Hough demonstrates how distinctive practices endure in the midst of intensifying biomedicalization, both on the part of patients and on the part of physicians, and how these differences grow from broader cultural narratives about diabetes in each setting.

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