Research Catalog

Title

Speaking from the body : Latinas on health and culture / edited by Angie Chabram-Dernersesian and Adela de la Torre.

Publication

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie
• Torre, Adela de la

Description

232 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In compelling first-person accounts, Latinas speak freely about dealing with serious health episodes as patients, family caregivers, or friends. They show ways. that personal identity and community intersect to affect interpretation of illnesses, compliance with treatment, and utilization of mainstream Western medicine, alternative therapies, and traditional healing practices." "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." "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 insights and shows that our understanding of health remains incomplete if Latina cultural narratives are not included."--Jacket.

Subject

• Hispanic or Latino
• Disease > psychology
• Disease > ethnology
• Cultural Characteristics
• Women's Health
• Hispanic American women > Health and hygiene
• Hispanic American women > Biography
• United States

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-225).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Of breasts and baldness : my life with cancer / Gabriela F. Arredondo -- Embodying dementia : remembrances of memory loss / Yvette G. Flores -- Countering the pain that never heals : Platicás that mend the soul / Adele de la Torre -- Letters to Ceci : a journal from hyperthyroidism to hypothyroidism / Clara Lomas -- Fat in America : a Latina's personal journal / "Christi" -- A language for healing : finding sacred meaning in transcending chronic lupus / Concha Delgado Gaitan -- Debe ser la reuma/It must be rheumatism / Enriqueta Valdez-Curiel -- My spirit in rebellion, my body with Parkinson's Disease : soy soldadera rebelde / Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell -- "I wake up and go to bed with pills" : an anonymous Latina speaks about the not-so-silent killer (hypertension) / redacted by Angie Chabram-Dernersesian -- A tapestry of illness : a Latina physician's family gives voice to diabetes and illness / Jessica Núñez de Ybarra -- "Working toward wholeness" : Gloria Anzaldua's struggles to live with diabetes and chronic illness / AnaLouis Keating -- When the joys of pregnancy bring a shocking discovery : a Latina epidemiologist confronts gestational diabetes / Lorena García -- A retrospective on the narratives of Latina health : what we can learn / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian and Adela de la Torre -- Latina health : empirical realities, alternative interpretations, and policy recommendations / Adela de la Torre.

ISBN

• 9780816526642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0816526648 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008025273

OCLC

• 227015875
• SCSB-12756463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library