Diabetes As a Disease of Civilization
Subtitle: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples (New Babylon, Studies in the Social Sciences)
Contributors: Robert S. Young (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: February 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9783110134742
Subjects: Diabetes; Indigenous peoples; Public health & preventive medicine; Diseases - Diabetes; Indians of North America; Epidemiology; Medical / Nursing; Social aspects; Health/Fitness; North America; Endocrinology & Metabolism; Diseases; Non-insulin-dependent diabetes
First sentence: In 1974, the late Dr. Kelly West, who can be considered the father of diabetes epidemiology, reviewed exhaustively the literature on diabetes among North American Indians as well as aboriginal populations in other parts of the world (West 1974).