Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease

by Jeffrey A. Bennett

Book Overview

A critical study of diabetes in the popular imagination

Over 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479835285
• ISBN13: 9781479835287
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"