Syndemic suffering
Subtitle: social distress, depression, and diabetes among Mexican immigrant women
By: Emily Mendenhall
Series: Advances in critical medical anthropology -- v. 4
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781611321418; 9781611321432; 9781611326833
Subjects: Social conditions; Health and hygiene; Mexican American women; Diabetes in women
Description: 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 linked diabetes and depression, revealing how broad structural inequalities play out in the life histories of individuals, families and communities and lead to higher rates of mortality and morbidity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.