Agree Joseph - type 1 and type 2 diabetes are viewed differently by society. When our Olympic athlete Steve Redgrave got diabetes everyone assumed it was type 1 (=> 'personal tragedy'), but actually it was type 2 (seen as "self inflicted")! Of course nobody takes more exercise than Redgrave so we had to revisit all our assumptions about the biomedical aspects of type 2!
Your comments tend to come from a psychological perspective rather than socioloigcal. Most diabeets education programmes look at the individual rather than their social setting. My own work tries to challenge this individualist model - wel'' talk more about that later in the course.
