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Reinventing diabetes: classification, division and the geneticization of disease

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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:45 authored by Adam Hedgecoe
This paper shows how diabetes underwent geneticization to become the exemplar of a complex genetic disorder. My analysis focuses on the debates that took place in the mid-to-late-1970s over the classification of, and the role of genetic factors in, diabetes. By exploring the work of an influential researcher and clinician, Andrew Cudworth, I show how the discourse around diabetes constructed it as a genetic condition divided into different types on the grounds of aetiology. I then track this classification over time as it became the current, extremely splintered classification system.

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  • Published

Journal

New Genetics and Society

ISSN

14636778

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

1

Volume

21

Page range

7-27

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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