Managing diabetes : the cultural politics of disease /

Managing diabetes : the cultural politics of disease /

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Author / Creator:	Bennett, Jeffrey A. (Jeffrey Allen), 1974- author.
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Biopolitics: medicine, technoscience, and health in the twenty-first century series Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
Subject:	Diabetes -- Treatment. Diabetes. Diabetes -- Complications. Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes Complications Patients -- psychology Social Stigma Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Diabetes -- Treatment.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13541663

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ISBN:	9781479821273 1479821276 9781479830435 1479830437 9781479835287 1479835285
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Print version record
Summary:	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. In focusing on the public character of the disease, Bennett looks at health campaigns and promotions as well as the debate over public figures like Sonia Sotomayor and her management of type 1 diabetes. Bennett examines the confusing and contradictory public depictions of diabetes to demonstrate how management of the disease is not only clinical but also cultural. Bennett also has type 1 diabetes and speaks from personal experience about the many misunderstandings and myths that are alive in the popular imagination. Ultimately, Managing Diabetes offers a fresh take on how disease is understood in contemporary society and the ways that stigma, fatalism, and health can intersect to shape diabetes's public character. This disease has dire health implications, and rates keep rising. Bennett argues that until it is better understood it cannot be better treated
Other form:	Print version: Bennett, Jeffrey A. (Jeffrey Allen), 1974- Managing diabetes. New York : New York University Press, [2019] 9781479830435

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Summary:	No detailed description available for "Managing Diabetes".
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	9781479821273 1479821276 9781479830435 1479830437 9781479835287 1479835285