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Who gets diabetes and why? An indepth examination of diabetes in the context of race, public health, class, and heredity [An] unsettling but insightful social history. Kirkus Reviews The important lessons of A History of Race and Disease may strengthen organized medicines commitment to addressing social determinants of health and equity.David Goldberg, Health Affairs 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, middleclass 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 publics eye from being a disease of wealth and civilization to one of poverty and primitive populations. In tracing this cultural history, Tuchman argues that shiftin

Who reads Diabetes : A History of Race and Disease?

Author

Arleen Marcia Tuchman [Tuchman, Arleen Marcia]

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300228991

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Health & Fitness, Science