Living with Lupus: Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador

Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among...
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Author: Ann Miles
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Living with Lupus: Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador by Miles, Ann

Living with Lupus: Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador

$63.62

Living with Lupus: Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador

$63.62
Author: Ann Miles
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urbanization and increased life expectancy. One of these diseases is the chronic autoimmune disorder lupus erythematosus. Difficult to diagnose and harder still to effectively manage, lupus challenges the very foundations of women's lives, their real and imagined futures, and their carefully constructed gendered identities. While the illness is validated by medical science, it is poorly understood by women, their families, and their communities, which creates multiple tensions as women attempt to make sense of an unpredictable, expensive, and culturally suspect medically managed illness.

Living with Lupus vividly chronicles the struggles of Ecuadorian women as they come to terms with the experience of debilitating chronic illness. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, Ann Miles sensitively portrays the experiences and stories of Ecuadorian women who suffer with the intractable and stigmatizing disease. She uses in-depth case histories, rich in ethnographic detail, to explore not only how chronic illness can tear at the seams of women's precarious lives, but also how meanings are reconfigured when a biomedical illness category moves across a cultural landscape. One of the few books that deals with the meanings and experiences of chronic illness in the developing world, Living with Lupus contributes to our understanding of a significant global health transition.



Author: Ann Miles
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 05/15/2013
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780292762008

About the Author
ANN MILESKalamazoo, MichiganMiles is an anthropologist and a professor in the Sociology Department of Western Michigan University. The author of From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration, she has conducted ethnographic research in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, for more than two decades.

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