Managing the unmanageable: Elderly Russian Jewish Émigrés and the biomedical culture of diabetes care

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-26

  Borovoy, Amy ^a   Hine, Janet ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical culture; Cultural competence; Diabetes; Risk; Russian migr s

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JEW; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JEWS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RUSSIA; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45449088368     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2008.00001.x     Document Type: Article

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