title: Troubled interventions: public policy, vectors of disease, and the rhetoric of diabetes management.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, 105 Becker Communication Studies Building, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. jeff-bennett@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bennett
mesh_terms: D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring / Q000523:psychology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D048909:Diabetes Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D058872:Epidemics; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin / Q000032:analysis; D006295:Health Resources; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009519:New York City; D011159:Population Surveillance; D018907:Privacy; D011634:Public Health; D011639:Public Opinion; D011640:Public Policy; D012042:Registries; D057545:Social Stigma; D012944:Social Support; D014504:Urban Health
chemical_list: D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin; C517652:hemoglobin A1c protein, human