Diabetes in Native Chicago: An Ethnography of Identity, Community, and Care

by Margaret Pollak

Book Overview

In Diabetes in Native Chicago Margaret Pollak explores experiences, understandings, and care of diabetes in a Native American community made up of individuals representing more than one hundred tribes from across the United States and Canada. Today Indigenous Americans have some of the highest rates of diabetes worldwide. While rates of diabetes climbed in reservation areas, they also grew in cities, where the majority of Native people live...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496212061
• ISBN13: 9781496212061
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"