This article posits self-care as a powerful analytic in contemporary anthropology, one that
provides insight into both long-standing anthropological concerns about the person, power …

In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors
transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place …

Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other
who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession …

Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness
in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where …

Abstract Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), otherwise known as Conversion Disorder,
is characterized by abnormal sensory or motor symptoms that are determined to be …

The COVID-19 pandemic and 'lockdown'restrictions have affected people's health and
wellbeing globally. Those who are clinically vulnerable to COVID-19 mortality due to living …

Mexicans who migrate to the United States endure significant stressors related to the
migration process and social and environmental conditions of life in the United States. Given …

Women in North India are socialized to care for others, so what do they do when they get a
disease like diabetes that requires intensive self-care? In Sugar and Tension, Lesley Jo …

Most research on diabetes has taken place in cities or in high-income countries, even
though most diabetes deaths occur in low and middle-income countries, and diabetes …

The Type 2 diabetes epidemic in India poses challenges to the health system. Yet little is
known about how urban Indians view treatment and self-care. Such views are important …