Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo - Sweetness Under Pressure

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of ¿agh¿, translated as 'pressure' or 'stress', and another related primarily to obesity. It tells a story of uncertainty, not only among people in Cairo but also within medical research.

List of contents

Prologue
Questions
1. Introduction
2. Laughter
3. Food
4. Drugs
5. Care
6. Novo
7. Final Notes
Epilogue

About the author

Mille Kjærgaard Thorsen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at VIA University College in Aarhus, Denmark, where she teaches and conducts research in the cross-fields of health and social studies. She holds a PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University.

Summary

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of ?agh?, translated as ‘pressure’ or ‘stress’, and another related primarily to obesity. It tells a story of uncertainty, not only among people in Cairo but also within medical research.

Product details

• Authors: Mille Kjaergaard Thorsen
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032356181
• ISBN: 978-1-032-35618-1
• No. of pages: 172
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Diabetes, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Egypt, Cairo, MEDICAL / Endocrinology & Metabolism, Personal & public health, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, Medicine: Diabetes