
Diabetes : Who Gets it, Who Profits and How to Stop it.
Title:
Diabetes : Who Gets it, Who Profits and How to Stop it.
Author:
Spero, David.
ISBN:
9781550923742
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Prologue: Diabetes 101 -- Part One: A Profit-Driven Plague -- Chapter 1: Diabetes as a Social Disease -- Chapter 2: Toxic Environment - Stress and Inequality -- Chapter 3: Toxic Environment - Food and Inactivity -- Chapter 4: The Medical System -Friends and Enemies -- Part Two: Health as a Movement -- Chapter 5: From Shame to Strength -- Chapter 6: Self-Care as a Political Act -- Chapter 7: Strength in Numbers -- Chapter 8: Taking It to the Streets -- Chapter 9: The Movement Takes Shape -- Chapter 10: Diabetes as a Turning Point -- Appendix A: Self-care -- Appendix B: Resource List -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
This book does for diabetes what Fast Food Nation did for hamburgers.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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