| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps (black and white) |
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text file |
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| Contents |
Judenkrankeit a Jewish malady -- Whiteness, self-restraint, and citizenship -- Misunderstanding the African American experience -- Native peoples and the thrifty gene hypothesis -- A nationwide hunt for hidden disease -- Epilogue: Diabetes and race since 1985. |
| Summary |
Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman describes how at different times Jews, middle-class whites, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans have been labeled most at risk for developing diabetes, and that such claims have reflected and perpetuated troubling assumptions about race, ethnicity, and class. She describes how diabetes underwent a mid-century transformation in the public's eye from being a disease of wealth and "civilization" to one of poverty and "primitive" populations. In tracing this cultural history, Tuchman argues that shifting understandings of diabetes reveal just as much about scientific and medical beliefs as they do about the cultural, racial, and economic milieus of their time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record; online resource viewed January 13, 2021. |
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Print version record. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Diabetes -- United States -- History.
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Diabetes -- United States -- Genetic aspects.
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Diabetes -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Diabetes Mellitus -- history.
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Diabetes Mellitus -- genetics.
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Race Factors.
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United States.
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Diabetes. (OCoLC)fst00892147
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Diabetes -- Genetic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00892166
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Diabetes -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00892192
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tuchman, Arleen, 1956- Diabetes. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020] 9780300228991 (OCoLC)1141522000 |
| ISBN |
0300256302 (electronic book) |
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9780300256307 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.12987/9780300256307 doi |
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