Self-Care at the Margins: Meals and Meters in Migrants' Diabetes Tactics.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in 2006 and 2007, this article examines Turkish migrants' everyday practices of diabetes self-management in Berlin, Germany. To avoid diabetes complications, Turkish Berliners became self-carers who altered food choices, cooking and eating practices, and made their...

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Publicado en:Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 518 - 534
Autor principal: Guell, Cornelia
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2012
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