globalization and type 2 diabetes in the United States and Japan /
First Statement of Responsibility
Mari Armstrong-Hough.
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Chapel Hill :
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University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
Studies in social medicine
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Two countries, one disease -- Biomedicalization and globalization -- Cavemen didn't get diabetes: American narratives about the origins of type 2 diabetes -- Our genes don't match your culture: Japanese narratives about the origins of type 2 diabetes -- Your diabetes: U.S. health care providers' orientations towards patients -- Our diabetes: diabetes in the Japanese exam room -- Diabetes at home: explanatory models in everyday practice -- Diabetes and its discontents.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this text, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise in and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctv7z7j3s
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Biomedicalization and the practice of culture.
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9781469646671
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes-- Japan.
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes-- Social aspects-- Japan.
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes-- Social aspects-- United States.