Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-9788-0301-5
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Medical Anthropology

Women in North India are socialized to care for others, so what do they do when they get a disease like diabetes that requires intensive self-care? In Sugar and Tension, Lesley Jo Weaver uses women's experiences with diabetes in New Delhi as a lens to explore how gendered roles and expectations are taking shape in contemporary India. Weaver argues that although women's domestic care of others may be at odds with the self-care mandates of biomedically-managed diabetes, these roles nevertheless do important cultural work that may buffer women's mental and physical health by fostering social belonging. Weaver describes how women negotiate the many responsibilities in their lives when chronic disease is at stake. As women weigh their options, the choices they make raise questions about whose priorities should count in domestic, health, and family worlds. The varied experiences of women illustrate that there are many routes to living well or poorly with diabetes, and these are not always the ones canonized in biomedical models of diabetes management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weaver, Lesley Jo

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Endokrinologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Innere Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Diabetologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnomedizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Opening a Window on Diabetes Experience
- Chapter 2: Seeking Modern India
- Chapter 3: Balance: The Moral and Practical Work of Diabetes Management
- Chapter 4: Tension: Diabetes, Distress, and Mental Health
- Chapter 5: Sacrifice: Domesticity and Care Among Women with Diabetes
- Chapter 6: Resilience: Living Well with Diabetes
- Chapter 7: Conclusions: Diabetes as Life
- Appendix
- References
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lesley Jo Weaver is an assistant professor of medical anthropology in the department of international studies at the University of Oregon in Eugene.