{"title":"Arleen Marcia Tuchman","description":"\u003cp\u003eArleen Marcia Tuchman offers readers insightful and accessible works that delve into complex health topics with clarity and compassion. Her books, such as those focusing on diabetes, combine thorough research with practical guidance, making medical information approachable for a wide audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on helping readers understand and manage chronic conditions, Tuchman’s writing is both informative and empowering. Expect clear explanations and thoughtful perspectives that support well-being and informed health choices.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"diabetes-by-arleen-marcia-tuchman-9780300274226","title":"Diabetes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho gets diabetes and why? An in‑depth examination of diabetes in the context of race, public health, class, and heredity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“[An] unsettling but insightful social history.”\u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The important lessons of \u003ci\u003eDiabetes: A History of Race and Disease\u003c\/i\u003e may strengthen organised medicine’s commitment to addressing social determinants of health and equity.”\u003c\/em\u003e—David Goldberg, \u003cem\u003eHealth Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWho 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman describes how at different times Jews, middle‑class whites, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans have been labelled 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 public’s eye from being a disease of wealth and “civilisation” to one of poverty and “primitive” populations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn tracing this cultural history, Tuchman argues that shifting understandings of diabetes reveal just as much about scientific and medical beliefs as they do about the cultural, racial, and economic milieus of their time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430590726380,"sku":"9780300274226","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300274226.jpg?v=1774559017"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/arleen-marcia-tuchman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}