Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community

In recent years, many aboriginal communities in North America have experienced increasing rates of maturity onset diabetes. This paper is based on interviews held with individuals diagnosed with diabetes in an Anishinaabe community in Manitoba, Canada. The varying ways people account for their own c...

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Main Author: Garro, Linda C.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
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anishina*
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277-9536(94)00125-D
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spelling ftrepec:oai:RePEc:eee:socmed:v:40:y:1995:i:1:p:37-46 2024-04-14T08:01:04+00:00 Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community Garro, Linda C. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277-9536(94)00125-D unknown http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277-9536(94)00125-D article ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:29:52Z In recent years, many aboriginal communities in North America have experienced increasing rates of maturity onset diabetes. This paper is based on interviews held with individuals diagnosed with diabetes in an Anishinaabe community in Manitoba, Canada. The varying ways people account for their own case of diabetes and the increase in diabetes generally are described. Although people talk about diabetes as a result of individual dietary choices, much of the discourse links diabetes to environmental and societal changes. diabetes cultural knowledge explanatory models of illness Ojibway Article in Journal/Newspaper anishina* RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Canada
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description In recent years, many aboriginal communities in North America have experienced increasing rates of maturity onset diabetes. This paper is based on interviews held with individuals diagnosed with diabetes in an Anishinaabe community in Manitoba, Canada. The varying ways people account for their own case of diabetes and the increase in diabetes generally are described. Although people talk about diabetes as a result of individual dietary choices, much of the discourse links diabetes to environmental and societal changes. diabetes cultural knowledge explanatory models of illness Ojibway
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Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community
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title Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community
title_short Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community
title_full Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community
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title_full_unstemmed Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community
title_sort individual or societal responsibility? explanations of diabetes in an anishinaabe (ojibway) community
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