TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miles,Ann
TI  - Living with Lupus: Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador 
T2  - Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
SN  - 9780292744660
U1  - 362.196772009866 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter One. Introduction --; Chapter Two. Cuenca, Lupus, and Chronic Illness --; Chapter Three. Health Care in Ecuador --; Chapter Four. Liminality --; Chapter Five. Loss --; Chapter Six. Suffering --; Chapter Seven. Transformation --; Chapter Eight. Living with Lupus --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urbanization and increased life expectancy. One of these diseases is the chronic autoimmune disorder lupus erythematosus. Difficult to diagnose and harder still to effectively manage, lupus challenges the very foundations of women’s lives, their real and imagined futures, and their carefully constructed gendered identities. While the illness is validated by medical science, it is poorly understood by women, their families, and their communities, which creates multiple tensions as women attempt to make sense of an unpredictable, expensive, and culturally suspect medically managed illness. Living with Lupus vividly chronicles the struggles of Ecuadorian women as they come to terms with the experience of debilitating chronic illness. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, Ann Miles sensitively portrays the experiences and stories of Ecuadorian women who suffer with the intractable and stigmatizing disease. She uses in-depth case histories, rich in ethnographic detail, to explore not only how chronic illness can tear at the seams of women’s precarious lives, but also how meanings are reconfigured when a biomedical illness category moves across a cultural landscape. One of the few books that deals with the meanings and experiences of chronic illness in the developing world, Living with Lupus contributes to our understanding of a significant global health transition
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/744653
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292744660
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292744660/original
ER  -