Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture: Globalization and Type 2 Diabetes in the United States and Japan
Mari Armstrong-Hough
Abstract
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 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 these distinctive strategies, Armstrong-Hough argues that physicians act not only on increasingly globalized professional standards but also on local knowledge, explanatory models, and cultural toolkits. As a ... More
Keywords: Medicalization, Sociology of culture, Sociology of health, Globalization, Biomedicalization, Japan
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9781469646688 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: September 2019 | DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646688.001.0001 |
