Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes Among Mexican Immigrant Wome

by Emily Mendenhall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611321425
• ISBN13: 9781611321425
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"