{"id":425,"date":"2015-08-25T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/?page_id=425"},"modified":"2015-08-25T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:18:00","slug":"jeff-bennett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/participant-profiles\/jeff-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/participant-profiles\/jeff-bennett\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-520 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bennett2.jpg\" alt=\"bennett2\" width=\"120\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><strong>Title:<\/strong> Associate Professor<\/p>\n<p><strong>University:<\/strong> University of Iowa\/Vanderbilt University (after Fall 2015)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> jeff-bennett@uiowa.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong>@jeffreyabennett<\/p>\n<h2>Description of Work:<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m currently working on a book about the rhetoric of diabetes management. The work attempts to move past conceptions of management that are generally formulated using the clinic as a site of investigation, looking to the myriad ways diabetes materializes in the public sphere. Diabetes is imagined, often in contradictory terms, as: erratic, easily controlled, a disease to be transcended, an epidemic, a neo-liberal marker of individual responsibility, and the new frontier of technological possibility, among others. I argue these differing conceptions of diabetes influence how we approach, investigate, and ultimately treat the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Associate Professor University: University of Iowa\/Vanderbilt University (after Fall 2015) Email: jeff-bennett@uiowa.edu Twitter:@jeffreyabennett Description of Work: I\u2019m currently working on a book about the rhetoric of diabetes management. The work attempts to move past conceptions of management that are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/participant-profiles\/jeff-bennett\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-425","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}