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“Making the Mexican Diabetic presents a finely-honed ethnography. Montoya is particularly
attuned to the sensitivity and conundrums surrounding the use of DNA drawn from a …

In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health
and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to …

Diabetes and its many manifestations articulate well with the four-field approach in
anthropology, providing an almost seamless example of the relationship between human …

Gestational diabetes is the one form of this well known, chronic disease of development that
disappears. After the birth of the child, the mother's glucose levels typically return to normal …

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression in which symptoms occur during a
particular season. While physical activity has been shown to improve symptoms for …

The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology provides a contemporary overview of the
key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional …

Abstract American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) are disproportionately impacted by
gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), subsequent type 2 diabetes, and food insecurity. It is …

The globalization of genetic discourses, especially where ethnicity is treated as a “risk factor”
for disease, deserves special attention and concern. In countries such as Mexico, with large …

Indigenous populations worldwide who are shifting to a westernized lifestyle experience
high rates of type 2 diabetes and obesity. These conditions are commonly the result of …