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Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes : Racialised Constructions of 'Risky' South Asian Bodies

Keval, Harshad

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016

1 Online-Ressource (205 p)

Englisch

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Print version: Keval, Harshad : Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes : Racialised Constructions of 'Risky' South Asian Bodies. - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK,c2016

978-1-137-45702-8

978-1-137-45702-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 951073948     

978-1-137-45703-5 ( : 178.57 (NL),133.93 (3U),89.29 (1U))

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H1-970.9

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Area studies

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Part I : Contextualising the 'Risky' South Asian Diabetic Body -- 2: Conceptualising Race, Ethnicity, and Health -- Conceptualising Race and Ethnicity in Health -- 'Bio-race Thinking' -- 'Bio-moral Panics' -- Categories and Labels of Difference -- Epidemiology and Ethnicity: A Numbers Game? -- The Bio-politics of Difference and Health -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Situating the South Asian Diabetic Risk -- Defining Diabetes -- Types of Diabetes -- A 'New' Condition? -- Complications

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Lay Health Experiences -- The Role of Biography -- What's in a Name? -- Misattributions of Causality -- Trends, Patterns, and the Politics of Counting: The Worldwide and UK Picture -- The South Asian Picture -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Constructing the Risk: Faulty Lifestyles, Faulty Genes -- Linking the Personal and the Public: Diabetes as 'Trouble' and 'Issue' -- The Politics of 'Ethnic' Diabetes -- Ethnicity-Related Diabetes Initiatives -- The 'Thrifty Gene': Genetic Arguments, Diabetes, and Ethnicity -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Method -- 'A Story … Not THE Story'