Rethinking diabetes : entanglements with trauma, poverty, and HIV /
"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...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2019.
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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"-- |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781501738319 1501738313 9781501738326 1501738321 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2019). |