This book explores the often contentious relationship between health, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the impact on South Asian groups. Using medical sociological and anthropological perspectives, it excavates racialised constructions of diabetes risk within discourses, and highlights the contrasting counter narratives in people s accounts of their everyday lives.
By identifying a number of components to the discursive, racialised construction of risky South Asian bodies, this book problematises taken for granted understandings of culture, lifestyle and genetic risk. The mobilisation...