Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV

by Emily Mendenhall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501738437
• ISBN13: 9781501738432
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher