Overview
- Exposes traditional and unquestioned conceptions of diabetes that dominate the public imagination
- Study of social, political, and cultural representations of diabetes
- Exposes traditional and unquestioned conceptions of diabetes that dominate the public imagination
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture (PSSPC)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
While the 21st century insulin crisis provokes protest and political dialogue, public conception of diabetes remain firmly unchanged. Popular media representations portray diabetes as a condition couched in lifestyle choices. In the groundbreaking volume (Un)doing Diabetes, authors destabilize depictions so powerful, so subtle, and so unquestioned, that readers may find assertions counterintuitive. (Un)doing Diabetes is the first collection of essays to use disability studies to explore representations of diabetes across a wide range of mediums- from Twitter to TV and film, to theater, fiction, fanfiction, fashion and more. This disability studies approach to diabetes locates individual experiences of diabetes within historical and contemporary social conditions. In undoing diabetes, authors deconstruct assumptions the public commonly holds about diabetes, while writers doing diabetes present counter-narratives community members create to represent themselves. This collection will be of interest to scholars, activists, caregivers, and those living with diabetes.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bianca C. Frazer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Chicago with a PhD in Theater Studies from University of Colorado Boulder.
Heather R. Walker is the Associate Director of Qualitative Research at the University of Utah Health and earned her PhD in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: (Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture
Editors: Bianca C. Frazer, Heather R. Walker
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83110-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83109-7Published: 22 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83112-7Published: 23 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83110-3Published: 21 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-4359
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4367
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 368
Topics: Cultural Studies