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In compelling first-person accounts, Latinas speak freely about dealing with serious health episodes as patients, family caregivers, or friends. They show how the complex interweaving of gender, class, and race impacts the health status of Latinasâand how family, spirituality, and culture affect the experience of illness.
Here are stories of Latinas living with conditions common to many: hypertension, breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, dementia, Parkinson's, lupus, and hyper/hypothyroidism. By bringing these narratives out from the shadows of private lives, they demonstrate how such ailments form part of the larger whole of Latina lives that encompasses family, community, the medical profession, and society. They show how personal identity and community intersect to affect the interpretation of illness, compliance with treatment, and the utilization of allopathic medicine, alternative therapies, and traditional healing practices. The book also includes a retrospective analysis of the narratives and a discussion of Latina health issues and policy recommendations.
These Latina cultural narratives illustrate important aspects of the social contexts and real-world family relationships crucial to understanding illness. Speaking from the Body is a trailblazing collection of personal testimonies that integrates professional and personal perspectives and shows that our understanding of health remains incomplete if Latina cultural narratives are not included.
Here are stories of Latinas living with conditions common to many: hypertension, breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, dementia, Parkinson's, lupus, and hyper/hypothyroidism. By bringing these narratives out from the shadows of private lives, they demonstrate how such ailments form part of the larger whole of Latina lives that encompasses family, community, the medical profession, and society. They show how personal identity and community intersect to affect the interpretation of illness, compliance with treatment, and the utilization of allopathic medicine, alternative therapies, and traditional healing practices. The book also includes a retrospective analysis of the narratives and a discussion of Latina health issues and policy recommendations.
These Latina cultural narratives illustrate important aspects of the social contexts and real-world family relationships crucial to understanding illness. Speaking from the Body is a trailblazing collection of personal testimonies that integrates professional and personal perspectives and shows that our understanding of health remains incomplete if Latina cultural narratives are not included.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Narratives of Latina Health
- 1. Of Breasts and Baldness: My Life with Cancer
- 2. Embodying Dementia: Remembrances of Memory Loss
- 3. Countering the Pain That Never Heals: PlĂĄticas That Mend the Soul
- 4. Letters to Ceci: A Journey from Hyperthyroidism to Hypothyroidism
- 5. Fat in America: A Latinaâs Personal Journey
- 6. A Language for Healing: Finding Sacred Meaning in Transcending Chronic Lupus
- 7. Debe ser la reuma / It Must Be Rheumatism
- 8. My Spirit in Rebellion, My Body with Parkinsonâs Disease: Soy soldadera rebelde
- 9. âI Wake Up and Go to Bed with Pillsâ: An Anonymous Latina Speaks about the Not-So-Silent Killer (Hypertension)
- 10. A Tapestry of Illness: A Latina Physicianâs Family Gives Voice to Diabetes and Illness
- 11. âWorking toward Wholenessâ: Gloria AnzaldĂșaâs Struggles to Live with Diabetes and Chronic Illness
- 12. When the Joys of Pregnancy Bring a Shocking Discovery: A Latina Epidemiologist Confronts Gestational Diabetes
- 13. A Retrospective on the Narratives of Latina Health: What We Can Learn
- 14. Latina Health: Empirical Realities, Alternative Interpretations, and Policy Recommendations
- Notes
- References and Further Reading
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors