Ecuadorian women's narratives of lupus, suffering, and vulnerability

Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness

Volumn 9780813549736, Issue , 2010, Pages 113-130

  Miles, Ann ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. Record keeping in general is very poor in Ecuador and there are no statistics on morbidity of mortality for lupus. Lupus mortality is probably "hidden" under statistics for kidney or coronary disease as many lupus deaths are attributable to other proximate causes.