Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes

Harshad Keval is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK. He has held posts in Switzerland and the UK and has worked on the intersection of race, ethnicity, culture and health in a variety of countries and contexts, including mental health in South Asia, childhood illnesses in Tanzania and Leprosy in Sri Lanka. His work recently has focused on the racialised constructions of risk in South Asian populations in the UK. He has published previously on the discursive constructions of racialised risk in contemporary health arenas, ‘normalised’ race based rhetoric in contemporary political contexts, and the emergent concerns around post-race discourse and immigration.

Introduction.- Part I. Contextualising the 'Risky' South Asian Diabetic Body.- Chapter 1. Conceptualising Race, Ethnicity and Health.- Chapter 2. Situating the South Asian Diabetic Risk.- Chapter 3.- Constructing the Risk - Faulty Lifestyles, Faulty Genes.- Chapter 4. Method. Part II. Resisting Constructions of Risk - The Counter Narratives.- Chapter 5. 'Doing Everyday Diabetes.- Chapter 6. Using Complimentary Health and Remedies.- Chapter 7. Diabetes, Biography and Community.- Chapter 8. 'Race-ing' Back to the Bio-Genetic Future?.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.