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9780865715677

Diabetes

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    9780865715677

  • ISBN10:

    086571567X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-11-01
  • Publisher: New Society Pub
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Summary

This is the first book to outline effective social approaches to health, describing the social and environmental causes of chronic illness and reporting success stories of empowerment that are changing the environment, transforming the medical system and healing suffering communities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
Foreword xiii
Gabor Mate
Introduction 1(6)
Prologue: Diabetes 101 7(6)
Part I --- A Profit-Driven Plague
13(64)
Diabetes as a Social Disease
15(12)
Toxic Environment: Stress and Inequality
27(12)
Toxic Environment: Food and Inactivity
39(14)
The Medical System: Friends and Enemies
53(24)
Part II --- Health as a Movement
77(80)
From Shame to Strength
81(12)
Self-Care as a Political Act
93(14)
Strength in Numbers
107(14)
Taking it to the Streets
121(14)
The Movement Takes Shape
135(16)
Diabetes as a Turning Point
151(6)
Appendix A: Self-Care 157(24)
Appendix B: Resource List 181(8)
Notes 189(27)
Index 216(7)
About the Author 223

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