Overview
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--
- | Author: Emily Mendenhall
- | Publisher: Cornell University Press
- | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1501738437
- | ISBN-13: 9781501738432
