Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV Ebook

Rethinking Diabetes

Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV

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 embedded these factors are in the ways diabetes is experienced and (re)produced among poor communities around the world. .eText ISBN: 9781501738319