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Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization : The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples / Jennie R. Joe, Robert S. Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New Babylon ; 50
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Type 2 diabetes--North America.
- Type 2 diabetes.
- Indians of North America--Diseases.
- Indians of North America.
- Type 2 diabetes--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 527 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- Reprint 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- i-iv
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Diabetes among Canadian Indians and Inuit: An epidemiological overview
- Chapter 2. Diabetes and Indians: A clinician’s perspective
- Chapter 3. The history of diabetes mellitus in the Desert People
- Chapter 4. Many Farms revisited: Evidence of increasing weight and non-insulin dependent diabetes in a Navajo community
- Chapter 5. Diabetes among the Kiowa: An ethnohistorical perspective
- Chapter 6. Diabetes among the Alaska Natives – The emergence of a chronic disease with changing life-styles
- Chapter 7. Diabetes and pregnancy among Alaska Natives: Prevalence and sociocultural aspects
- Chapter 8. Factors that influence the onset of diabetes in Dogrib Indians of the Canadian Northwest Territories
- Chapter 9. Traditional beliefs and attitudes about diabetes among Navajos and Utes
- Chapter 10. Explanations of diabetes: Anishinaabeg and Dakota deliberate upon a new illness
- Chapter 11. Perceptions of diabetes by Indian adolescents
- Chapter 12. Presenting complaints in a Navajo Indian diabetic population
- Chapter 13. Diet, culture, and diabetes
- Chapter 14. Food habit and cultural changes among the Pima Indians
- Chapter 15. Dietary change among the Navajo: Implications for diabetes
- Chapter 16. Cultural barriers to delivering health care: The non-Indian provider perspective
- Chapter 17. The Gila River Diabetes Prevention Model
- Chapter 18. Community approaches to diabetes prevention
- Contributors
- Index of subjects
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9783110853148
- 3110853140
- OCLC:
- 979752656
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