1st Edition
Syndemic Suffering Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Wome
By Emily Mendenhall
Copyright 2012
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a major contribution to the study of diabetes, this book is the first to analyze the disease through a syndemic framework. An innovative, mixed-methods study, Emily Mendenhall shows how adverse social conditions, such as poverty and oppressive relationships, disproportionately stress certain populations and expose them to disease clusters. She goes beyond epidemiological research that has... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Synthesizing the Syndemic Chapter 2: Synergy of the Self: Enduring Syndemic Suffering Chapter 3: Unpacking VIDDA: An Analysis of Social Distress Chapter 4: Borderlands: Immigration, Integration, and Isolation Chapter 5: Narrative to Mechanism: Understanding Distress and Diabetes
Biography
Emily Mendenhall
