Troubled Interventions: Public Policy, Vectors of Disease, and the Rhetoric of Diabetes Management |
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Authors: | Jeffrey A Bennett |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, 105 Becker Communication Studies Building, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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Abstract: | This essay examines the debate surrounding New York City’s controversial diabetes registry program. Exploring the tensions between public health officials and privacy advocates, the article explores how diabetes is imagined in the public sphere. Although rhetorics underscoring privacy may seem the more progressive discourse, I argue New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has the more forward-looking plan, attempting to reconstitute diabetes not as a chronic condition necessitating individual management but as a disease that requires systemic intervention. |
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