Description: Rethinking Diabetes Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV Author(s): Emily Mendenhall, Mark Nichter Format: Paperback Publisher: Cornell University Press, United States Imprint: Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 9781501738432, 978-1501738432 Synopsis In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place. Mendenhall argues that the link between sugar and diabetes overshadows the ways in which underlying biological processes linking hunger, oppression, trauma, unbridled stress, and chronic mental distress produce diabetes. The life history narratives in the book show how deeply embedded these factors are in the ways diabetes is experienced and (re)produced among poor communities around the world. Rethinking Diabetes focuses on the stories of women living with diabetes near or below the poverty line in urban settings in the United States, India, South Africa, and Kenya. Mendenhall shows how women's experiences of living with diabetes cannot be dissociated from their social responsibilities of caregiving, demanding family roles, expectations, and gendered experiences of violence that often displace their ability to care for themselves first. These case studies reveal the ways in which a global story of diabetes overlooks the unique social, political, and cultural factors that produce syndemic diabetes differently across contexts. From the case studies, Rethinking Diabetes clearly provides some important parallels for scholars to consider: significant social and economic inequalities, health systems that are a mix of public and private (with substandard provisions for low-income patients), and rising diabetes incidence and prevalence. At the same time, Mendenhall asks us to unpack 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.
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Book Title: Rethinking Diabetes
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Medicine, Anthropology
Item Height: 229 mm
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and Hiv
Type: Textbook
Author: Emily Mendenhall
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
