Managing Diabetes, The Cultural Politics of Illness

A vital research 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 type of diabetes. In focusing on the public character of the disease, Bennett looks at health projects and promos as well as the dispute over public figures like Sonia Sotomayor and her management of type 1 diabetes. Eventually, Managing Diabetes provides a fresh take on how illness is understood in contemporary society and the ways that preconception, fatalism, and health can intersect to shape diabetes’s public character.

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