Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan

by Mari Armstrong-Hough

Book Overview

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 in and response to the disease in two... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469646684
• ISBN13: 9781469646688
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"