In compelling first-person accounts, Latinas speak freely about
dealing with serious health episodes as patients, family
caregivers, or friends. They show how the complex interweaving of
gender, class, and race impacts the health status of Latinas--and
how family, spirituality, and culture affect the experience of
illness.
Here are stories of Latinas living with conditions common to many:
hypertension, breast cancer, obesity, diabetes, depression,
osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, dementia, Parkinson's, lupus,
and hyper/hypothyroidism. By bringing these narratives out from the
shadows of private lives, they demonstrate how such ailments form
part of the larger whole of Latina lives that encompasses family,
community, the medical profession, and society. They show how
personal identity and community intersect to affect the
interpretation of illness, compliance with treatment, and the
utilization of allopathic medicine, alternative therapies, and
traditional healing practices. The book also includes a
retrospective analysis of the narratives and a discussion of Latina
health issues and policy recommendations.
These Latina cultural narratives illustrate important aspects of
the social contexts and real-world family relationships crucial to
understanding illness. "Speaking from the Body" is a trailblazing
collection of personal testimonies that integrates professional and
personal perspectives and shows that our understanding of health
remains incomplete if Latina cultural narratives are not included.
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