Diabetes : a history of race and disease / Arleen Marcia Tuchman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-250) and index.

Judenkrankeit a Jewish malady -- Whiteness, self-restraint, and citizenship -- Misunderstanding the African American experience -- Native peoples and the thrifty gene hypothesis -- A nationwide hunt for hidden disease -- Epilogue: Diabetes and race since 1985.

Who 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. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman describes how at different times Jews, middleclass whites, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans have been labeled 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 publics eye from being a disease of wealth and {28}civilization.-- Source other than Library of Congress.