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Emily Mendenhall's insightful and innovative analysis of the growing global pandemic of diabetes using syndemic theory is an important contribution to medical anthropology and global health. The comparative cross-cultural case studies are persuasive and powerful. -- Peter J. Brown, Emory University, and author of <I>Foundations of Global Health</I> Emily Mendenhall critically explores how global health is confronting the rising prevalence of diabetes in the face of poverty, crippled health care systems, and HIV/AIDS. Her approach transcends epidemiological associations and paves the way for consideration of similar entanglements of disease, poverty, and local experience. -- Janet McGrath, Case Western Reserve University Emily Mendenhall's rich case studies-introducing each chapter in Rethinking Diabetes-offer forceful illustrations of the interplay of social and biological worlds. -- Lenore Manderson, The University of the Witwatersrand, and author of <I>Surface Tensions</I>

Emily Mendenhall's rich case studies-introducing each chapter in Rethinking Diabetes-offer forceful illustrations of the interplay of social and biological worlds. -- MandersonLenore, The University of the Witwatersrand, and author of <I>Surface Tensions</I> Emily Mendenhall critically explores how global health is confronting the rising prevalence of diabetes in the face of poverty, crippled health care systems, and HIV/AIDS. Her approach transcends epidemiological associations and paves the way for consideration of similar entanglements of disease, poverty, and local experience. -- Janet McGrath, Case Western Reserve University Emily Mendenhall's insightful and innovative analysis of the growing global pandemic of diabetes using syndemic theory is an important contribution to medical anthropology and global health. The comparative cross-cultural case studies are persuasive and powerful. -- Peter J. Brown, Emory University, and author of <I>Foundations of Global Health</I>

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Emily Mendenhall is a Professor of Global Health at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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