Managing Diabetes : : The Cultural Politics of Disease / / Jeffrey A. Bennett.
A critical study of diabetes in the popular imaginationOver 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 po...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biopolitics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 9 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Critical Conditions
- 2. “HIV Is the New Diabetes”: Analogies of Apathy
- 3. Lethal Premonitions: Fatalism and Advocacy
- 4. Containing Sotomayor: Narratives of Personal Restraint
- 5. Troubled Interventions: “Epidemic” Logic and Institutional Oversight
- 6. Cyborg Dreams
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author