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Managing diabetes : the cultural politics of disease /

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 p...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bennett, Jeffrey A. (Jeffrey Allen), 1974- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Collection:Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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