Controlling Diabetes, controlling diabetics: moral language in the management of Diabetes Type 2
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Broom, Dorothy; Whittaker, Andrea
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Contemporary management of diabetes places heavy emphasis on control, particularly control of blood sugars and of food consumption. Interviews with people living with diabetes type 2 show how identity and social relationships are negotiated through what is often a contradictory language of control, surveillance, discipline and responsibility. People frequently discuss diabetes-related behaviour in terms that position themselves or others as disobedient children, or as wicked or foolish adults....[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2004 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/88492 |
Source: | Social Science and Medicine |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.09.002 |
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