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Taking Health to the Streets in Puerto Rico: Resisting Gastronomic,
Psychiatric, and Diabetes Colonialism traces the ways in which
diabetes, depression, and food insecurity interact under the rule
of US colonization in Puerto Rico as well as the ways in which
these illnesses are interlaced with contemporary culture,
colonization, and politics. Central to the book, and critical to
its unique creative significance and contribution, is the
conceptual unification of politicized health and the embodiment of
identity and social inequality in Puerto Rico. Ultimately, the
advancement of health equity in Puerto Rico is a matter of
decolonization, and vice versa.
Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the
Caribbean takes a multilayered approach to the contemporary peoples
of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx peoples in the greater
diaspora. Central to this edited collection, and critical to its
creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual
unification of gendered health, the embodiment of identity,
societal structures, and social inequality, and the ways in which
gender, health, and society intersect daily. By emphasizing the
complex ways in which gender and health intersect in Latin America,
the contributors to this collection offer a more detailed look at
how gender embodies health inequities in these populations and how
societal woes impact and constrain gendered bodies in public
spheres.
Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative
significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of
syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized
in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining
and addressing pathways of interaction between biological and
social aspects of chronic and acute suffering in populations. While
much research to date addresses known syndemics such as those
involving HIV, diabetes, and mental illness, this book explores new
directions just beginning to emerge in syndemics research -
revealing what syndemics theory can illuminate about, for example
the health consequences of socially pathologized pregnancy or
infertility, when stigmatization of reproductive options or
experiences affect women's health. In other chapters, newly
identified syndemics affecting incarcerated or detained individuals
are highlighted, demonstrating the physical, psychological,
structural, and political-economic effects of stigmatizing legal
frameworks on human health, through a syndemic lens. Elsewhere in
the volume, scholars examine the stigma of poverty and how it
affects both nutritional and oral health. The common thread across
all chapters is linkages of social stigmatization, structural
conditions, and how these societal forces drive biological and
disease interactions affecting human health, in areas not
previously explored through these lenses.
The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness
Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight
the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions
interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The
authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics to
demonstrate both the nature of disease interactions and how stigma
contributes to, promotes, exacerbates, or perpetuates a syndemic.
In so doing, the authors also address how stigma translates from a
social condition to various biological conditions. The authors'
contributions cover a variety of topics, including HIV, substance
use, obesity, depression, homelessness, poverty,and political
oppression. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology,
sociology, psychology, political science, and public health.
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