Rethinking diabetes : entanglements with trauma, poverty, and HIV /
Emily Mendenhall ; foreword by Mark Nichter.
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Syndemic diabetes -- Chicago -- Delhi -- Soweto -- Nairobi.
"Rethinking Diabetes investigates how diabetes is perceived and experienced differently from one place to the next. Drawing upon ethnographic narratives from women residing in urban contexts in the US, India, South Africa, and Kenya, the project unpacks how social, cultural, and epidemiological factors shape people's experiences and why we need to take these differences seriously when we think about what drives diabetes and how it affects the lives of the poor"--
9781501738319 9781501738326
2018052992
Diabetes--Social aspects. Diabetes--Economic aspects. Diabetes--Psychosomatic aspects. Diabetes--Psychological aspects. Diabetes in women. Diabetics--Social conditions--21st century. Syndemics. Type 2 diabetes. Women--Health and hygiene. HIV infections. Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Women's Health Psychological Trauma Poverty HIV Infections