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

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

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