Title: Indigenous peoples and diabetes : community empowerment and wellness /
Authors: Ferreira, Mariana K. Leal; Lang, Gretchen Chesley.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Diabetes Social aspects.; Indians of North America Diseases.; Indigenous peoples Diseases.; Indigenous peoples Health and hygiene; Diabetes Mellitus; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; American Native Continental Ancestry Group
Contents: Introduction: Deconstructing diabetes / Mariana Leal Ferreira nd Gretchen Chesley Lang -- Colonialism, social inequqlity, and community experience: Emotion, grief, and power : reconsiderations of Hawaiian health / Jo C. Scheder ; 'In their tellings' : Dakota narratives about history and the body / Gretchen Chesley Lang;- Slipping through sky holes : Yurok body imagery in Northern California / Mariana Leal Ferreira ; Diabetes in Réunion Island (Indian Ocean) : from sugar plantations to modern society / Muriel Roddier ; Nêhinaw (Cree) socioeconomic, political and historical explanations about the collective diabetes experience / Jocelyn Bruyère --^