Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes

by Lora Arduser

Diabetes, referred to as an epidemic for more than a decade, remains one of our most significant health issues in the twenty-first century. Because self-management is an important component of living with the disease, the biomedical concept of patient agency has long stressed notions of individual responsibility and autonomy. However, dramatic shifts in both health care and cultural practices call for a reassessment of traditional definitions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814253873
• ISBN13: 9780814253878
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"