Speaking through diabetes: Rethinking the significance of lay discourses on diabetes

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 220-239

  Mendenhall, Emily ^a   Seligman, Rebecca A ^a   Fernandez, Alicia ^b   Jacobs, Elizabeth A ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Diabetes mellitus; Explanatory models; Idioms of distress; Mexican Americans

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COST OF ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEXICAN AMERICANS; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954611020     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2010.01098.x     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. American Psychiatric Association 1994 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
2. Anderson, Ryan J., Kennet E. Freedland, Ray E. Clouse, and Patrick J. Lustman 2001 The Prevalence of Comorbid Depression in Adults with Diabetes. Diabetes Care 24(6):1069-1078.
3. Baker, Charlene K., Fran H. Norris, Dayna M. Diaz, Julia L. Perilla, Arthur D. Murphy, and Elizabeth G. Hill 2005 Violence and PTSD inMexico: Gender and Regional Differences. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 40(7):519-528.
4. Beck, Aaron T., C. H. Ward, M. Mendelson, J. Mock, and J. Erbaugh 1961 An Inventory for Measuring Depression. Archives of General Psychiatry 4:561-571.
5. Becker, Gay 1997 Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World. Berkeley: University of California Press.
6. Bourdieu, Pierre 1977 Outline of a Theory of Practice. R. Nice, trans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Bruner, Jerome 1986 Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
8. Cain, Carole, 1991 Personal Stories: Identity Acquisition and Self-Understanding in Alcoholics Anonymous. Ethos 19(2):210-253.
9. Capps, Lisa, and Elinor Ochs 1995 Constructing Panic: A Discourse on Agoraphobia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002 Diabetes: Disabling, Deadly, and on the Rise. In Diabetes Public Health Resource. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, ed. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
11. Cohen, Marlene Z., Toni Tripp-Reimer, Christopher Smith, Bernard Scorofman, and Sonja Lively 1994 Explanatory Models of Diabetes: Patient Practitioner Variation. Social Science and Medicine 38(1):59-66.
12. Contreras, Sandra, Senaida Fernandez, Vanessa L. Malcarne, Rick E. Ingram, and Vivian Ruiz Vaccarino 2004 Reliability and Validity of the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories in Caucasian Americans and Latinos. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 25(4):446-462.
13. Coronado, Gloria, Beti Thompson, Silvia Tejeda, and Ruby Godina 2004 Attitudes and Beliefs among Mexican Americans about Type 2 Diabetes. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 15(4):576-588.
14. de Groot, Mary, Ryan Anderson, Kenneth E. Freedland, Ray E. Clouse, and Patrick J. Lustman 2001 Association of Depression and Diabetes Complications: A Meta-Analysis. Psychosomatic Medicine 63:619-630.
15. de Groot, Mary, Julie Wagner, Brenda Pinkerman, and Erin Hockman 2006 Depression Treatment and Satisfaction in a Multicultural Sample of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetic Patients. Diabetes Care 29:549-553.
16. DelVecchio Good, Mary-Jo, Paul E. Brodwin, Byron J. Good, and Arthur Kleinman, eds. 1992 Pain as Human Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press.
17. Farmer, Paul 1994 AIDS: Talk and the Constitution of Cultural Models. Social Science and Medicine 38:801-810.
18. Garro, Linda C. 1996 Intracultural Variation in Causal Accounts of Diabetes: A Comparison of Three Canadian Anishinaabe (Ojibway) Communities. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 20(4):381-420.
19. Garro, Linda C. 2000 Cultural Knowledge as Resource in Illness Narratives: Remembering through Accounts of Illness. In Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing. C. Mattingly and L. C. Garro, eds. Pp. 70-87. Berkeley: University of California Press.
20. Garro, Linda C., and Cheryl Mattingly 2000 Narrative as Construct and Construction. In Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing. C. Mattingly and L. C. Garro, eds. Pp. 1-49. Berkeley: University of California Press.
21. Golden, Sherita H., Mariana Lazo, Mercedes Carnethon, Alain G. Bertoni, Pamela J. Schreiner, Ana V. Diez Roux, Hochang B. Lee, and Constantine Lyketsos
22. Golden, Sherita H., Mariana Lazo, Mercedes Carnethon, Alain G. Bertoni, Pamela J. Schreiner, Ana V. Diez Roux, Hochang B. Lee 2008 Examining a Bidirectional Association between Depressive Symptoms and Diabetes. Journal of the American Medical Association 299(23):2751-2759.
23. Good, Byron 1977 The Heart of What's the Matter: The Semantics of Illness in Iran. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 1:25-58.
24. Good, Byron 1994 Medicine, Rationality, and Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
25. Guarnaccia, Peter J. 1992 Ataque de nervios in Puerto Rico: Culture-Bound Syndrome or Popular Illness? Medical Anthropology 15:1-14.
26. Guzman, Betsy 2001 The Hispanic Population: Census 2000 Brief. In Census 2000 Briefs and Special Reports. P.D. U.S. Census Bureau, ed. Washington, DC: United States Census Bureau.
27. Herman, Judith 1992 Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic.
28. Hirsch, Jennifer 2003 A Courtship after Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families. Berkeley: University of California Press.
29. Hunt, Linda M. 1998 Moral Reasoning and the Meaning of Cancer: Causal Explanations of Oncologists and Patients in Southern Mexico. Special collection, "Rationality in the Real World: Varieties of Reasoning in Illness and Healing," Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(3):298-318.
30. Hunt, Linda M. 2000 Strategic Suffering: Illness Narratives as Social Empowerment among Mexican Cancer Patients. In Narrative and the Construction of Illness and Healing. C. Mattingly and L. C. Garro, eds. Pp. 88-107. Berkeley: University of California Press.
31. Hunt, Linda M., Miguel Valenzuela, and Jaqueline Pugh 1998 Porque me tocó a mi? Mexican American Diabetes Patients' Causal Stories and their Relationship to Treatment Behaviors. Social Science and Medicine 46(8):959-969.
32. International Diabetes Federation 2001 Diabetes Atlas 2000. Brussels: International Diabetes Foundation.
33. Jezewski, Mary Ann, and Jane Poss 2002 Mexican Americans' Explanatory Model of Type 2 Diabetes. Western Journal of Nursing Research 24(8):840-858; discussion 58-67.
34. Kirmayer, Laurence J. 1992a The Body's Insistence on Meaning: Metaphor as Presentation and Representation in Illness Experience. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6(4):323-346.
35. Kirmayer, Laurence J. 1992b Improvisation and Authority in Illness Meaning. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 18:183-214.
36. Kirmayer, Laurence J., and Allan Young 1998 Culture and Somatization: Clinical, Epidemiological, and Ethnographic Perspectives. Psychosomatic Medicine 3:343-367.
37. Kleinman, Arthur 1980 Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Berkeley: University of California Press.
38. Kleinman, Arthur 1988 The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition. New York: Basic.
39. Kleinman, Arthur, and Joan Kleinman 1985 Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Depression, and the Meanings of Pain. In Culture and Depression. A. Kleinman and B. Good, eds. Pp. 429-490. Berkeley: University of California Press.
40. Krieger, Nancy 1999 Embodying Inequality: A Review of Concepts,Measures, andMethods for Studying Health Consequences of Discrimination. International Journal of Health Services 29(2):295-352.
41. Labov, William 1972 The Transformation of Experience in Narrative Syntax. In Language in the Inner City. Pp. 354-396. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
42. Lieberman, Leslie S. 2003 Dietary, Evolutionary, and Modernizing Influences on the Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes. Annual Review of Nutrition 23:345-377.
43. Loewe, Ronald, and Joshua Freeman 2000 Interpreting Diabetes Mellitus: Differences between Patient and Provider Models of Disease and Their Implications for Clinical Practice. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 24(4):379-401.
44. Loewe, Ronald, John Schwartzman, Joshua Freeman, Laurie Quinn, and Steve Zuckerman 1998 Doctor Talk and Diabetes: Towards an Analysis of the Clinical Construction of Chronic Illness. Social Science and Medicine 47(9):1267-1276.
45. Lown, E. Anne, and William A. Vega 2001 Prevalence and Predictors of Physical Partner Abuse among Mexican American Women. American Journal of Public Health 91(3):441-445.
46. Lustman, Patrick J., Ryan Anderson, Kennet E. Freedland, Mary de Groot, Robert Carney, and Ray E. Clouse 2000 Depression and Poor Glycemic Control: AMeta-Analytic Review of the Literature. Diabetes Care 23:934-942.
47. Mattingly, Cheryl 1998 Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
48. Mattingly, Cheryl, and Linda C. Garro 2000 Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing. Berkeley: University of California Press.
49. McGarvey, Stephen T., James R. Bindon, Douglas E. Crews, and Diana E. Schendel 1989 Modernization and Adiposity: Causes and Consequences. In Human Population Biology. M. Little and J. Haas, eds. Pp. 263-280. London: Oxford University Press.
50. Mercado-Martinez, Francisco J., and Igor M. Ramos-Herrera 2002 Diabetes: The Layperson's Theories of Causality. Qualitative Health Research 12(6):792-806.
51. Mokdad, Ali H., Barbara A. Bowman, Earl S. Ford, Frank Vinicor, James S. Marks, and Jeffrey P. Koplan 2001 The Continuing Epidemics of Obesity and Diabetes in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association 286:1195-1200.
52. Narayan, K. M. Venkat, James P. Boyle, Theodore J. Thompson, Stephen W. Sorenson, and David F. Williamson 2003 Lifetime Risk for Diabetes Mellitus in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association 290(14):1884-1890.
53. Nichter, Mark 1981 Idioms of Distress: Alternatives in the Expression of Psychosocial Distress: A Case Study from South India. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 5:379-408.
54. Ochs, Elinor, and Lisa Capps 1996 Narrating the Self. Annual Review of Anthropology 25:19-43.
55. Patti, Mary Elizabeth, Atul J. Butte, Sarah Crunkhorn, Kenneth Cusi, Rachele Berria, Sangeeta Kashyap, Yoshinori Miyazaki, Isaac Kohane, Maura Costello, Robert Saccone, Edwin J. J. Landaker, Allison B. Goldfine, Edward Mun, Ralph DeFronzo, Jean Finlayson, C. Ronald Kahn, and Lawrence J. Mandarino 2003 Coordinated Reduction of Genes of Oxidative Metabolism in Humans with Insulin Resistance and Diabetes: Potential Role of PGC1 and NRF1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100(14):8466-8471.
56. Pennebaker, James W. 1997 Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions. New York: Guilford.
57. Peyrot, Mark, James F. McMurry Jr., and Davida F. Kruger 1999 A Biopsychosocial Model of Glycemic Control in Diabetes: Stress, Coping and Regimen Adherence. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 40(2):141-158.
58. Polletta, Francesca 2007 It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
59. Poss, Jane, and Mary Ann Jezewski 2002 The Role and Meaning of Susto in Mexican Americans' Explanatory Model of Type 2 Diabetes. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16(3):360-377.
60. Rock, Melanie 2003 Sweet Blood and Social Suffering: Rethinking Cause-Effect Relationships in Diabetes, Distress and Duress. Medical Anthropology 22:131-174.
61. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, and Margaret M. Lock 1987 The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1(1):6-41.
62. Schoenberg, Nancy E., Elaine M. Drew, Eleanor P. Stoller, and Cary S. Kart 2005 Situating Stress: Lessons from Lay Discourses on Diabetes. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 19(2):171-193.
63. Seligman, Rebecca 2005 From Affliction to Affirmation: Narrative Transformation and the Therapeutics of Candomble Mediumship. Transcultural Psychiatry 12(2):272-294.
64. Shea, Alison, Christine Walsh, Harriet MacMillan, and Meir Steiner 2004 Child Maltreatment and HPA Axis Dysregulation: Relationship to Major Depressive Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Females. Psychoneuroendocrinology 30:162-178.
65. Stunkard, Albert J., and Thorkild Sorensen 1993 Obesity and Socioeconomic Status: A Complex Relation. New England Journal of Medicine 329:1036-1037.
66. Surwit, Richard S., Mark S. Schneider, and Mark N. Feinglos 1992 Stress and Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Care 15(10):1413-1422.
67. Weller, Susan C., Roberta Baer, Lee Pachter, Robert Trotter, Mark Glazer, Javier Garcia de Alba Garcia, and Robert Klein 1999 Latino Beliefs about Diabetes. Diabetes Care 22(5):722-728.
68. Wilkinson, Richard G. 1996 Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality. London: Routledge.
69. Yen, I. H., and S. Leonard Syme 1999 The Social Environment and Health: A Discussion of the Epidemiologic Literature. Annual Review of Public Health 20:287-308.
70. Young, Allan 1997 The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
71. Zeggini, Eleftheria, and Mark I. McCarthy 2007 TCF7L2: The Biggest Story in Diabetes Genetics since HLA? Diabetologia 50:1-4.
72. Zimmet, Paul, K. G. Alberti, and Jonathan Shaw 2001 Global and Societal Implications of the Diabetes Epidemic. Nature 414:782-787.