Ann Miles
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Chronic Conditions, Fluid States
Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness
Edited by Lenore Manderson and Carolyn Smith-Morris; Afterword by Arthur Kleinman and Rachel Hall-Clifford
Rutgers University Press
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it.
- Copyright year: 2010
Living with Lupus
Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador
By Ann Miles
University of Texas Press
Enriched with ethnographic stories of Ecuadorian women who struggle with the autoimmune disorder, lupus erythematosus, this book is one of the first to explore the meanings and experiences of medically managed chronic illness in the developing world.
- Copyright year: 2013
From Cuenca to Queens
An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration
By Ann Miles
University of Texas Press
This anthropological story of an Ecuadoran man's migration and its effects on his life and the lives of his parents and siblings adds a crucial human dimension to statistics about immigration and the macro impact of transnational migration on the global e
- Copyright year: 2004
Unraveling Time
Thirty Years of Ethnography in Cuenca, Ecuador
By Ann Miles
University of Texas Press
A compelling chronicle of economic, political, and social development in Cuenca.
- Copyright year: 2022
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