Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture

Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4696-4668-8
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Studies in Social Medicine

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armstrong-Hough, Mari

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Endokrinologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Diabetologie

Über Autor(innen)

Mari Armstrong-Hough is a medical sociologist and epidemiologist at the Yale University School of Public Health.