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Author Mendenhall, Emily, 1982- author.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Diabetes -- Social aspects.
Diabetes -- Social aspects.
Diabetes.
Diabetes -- Economic aspects.
Diabetes -- Economic aspects.
Diabetes -- Psychosomatic aspects.
Diabetes -- Psychosomatic aspects.
Diabetes -- Psychological aspects.
Diabetes -- Psychological aspects.
Diabetes in women.
Diabetes in women.
Diabetics -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Diabetics.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Syndemics.
Syndemics.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mendenhall, Emily, 1982- Rethinking diabetes. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501738302 (DLC) 2018052012
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