Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes as a self-help book for people promoted by Palgrave Macmillan UK in the year 2016-05-24 is represented to you if you search book quote Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Disease & Health Issues, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General, Medical / Public Health, Social Science / Regional Studies, . as a self-help book for people composed by Harshad Keval, with page thickness 201 Pages. you can found description of the book at the bottom
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ISBN: 9781137457028
This book explores the often contentious relationship between health, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the impact on South Asian groups. Using medical sociological and anthropological perspectives, it excavates racialised constructions of diabetes ‘risk’ within discourses, and highlights the contrasting counter narratives in people’s accounts of their everyday lives.
By identifying a number of components to the discursive, racialised construction of ‘risky’ South Asian bodies, this book problematises taken for granted understandings of culture, lifestyle and genetic risk. The mobilisation of these mechanisms in health science and interventions result in a racialising gaze, directed at groups already experiencing historically embedded race-related issues. The book situates these constructions of risk against the emergent, fluid and dynamic counter narratives to risk constructions. The new found momentum in genetic science is also critiqued in its formulation of racial-genetic risk, especially in the case of diabetes in South Asian groups, and is identified as perpetuating a series of racializing processes.
Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes
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