Title Rethinking diabetes : entanglements with trauma, poverty, and HIV / Emily Mendenhall ; foreword by Mark Nichter

Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages) Contents Syndemic diabetes -- Chicago -- Delhi -- Soweto -- Nairobi Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2019) Subject 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. Poverty. Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Women's Health Psychological Trauma Poverty HIV Infections poverty. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Women -- Health and hygiene Type 2 diabetes HIV infections Diabetes -- Economic aspects Diabetes in women Diabetes -- Psychological aspects Diabetes -- Psychosomatic aspects Diabetes -- Social aspects Syndemics SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 India https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007194 South Africa https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013019 Kenya https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007630 Form Electronic book LC no. 2018052992 ISBN 9781501738319 1501738313 9781501738326 1501738321

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