Managing diabetes : the cultural politics of disease / Jeffrey A. Bennett

By:

Bennett, Jeffrey A. (Jeffrey Allen), 1974- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781479821273
1479821276

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Managing diabetes.DDC classification:

616.4/62 23

LOC classification:

RC660 .B386 2019eb

NLM classification:

WK 810

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Critical conditions -- "HIV is the new diabetes" : analogies of apathy -- Lethal premonitions : fatalism and advocacy -- Containing Sotomayor : narratives of personal restraint -- Troubled interventions : "epidemic" logic and institutional oversight -- Cyborg dreams

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

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 5 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
eBook	e-Library	EBSCO Health		Available

Total holds: 0

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650