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...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 518 - 534 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2012
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