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Type II diabetes mellitus: technological development and the Oklahoma Cherokee
encounters with biomedicine : case studies in medical anthropology • 1 • Published In 1987 • Pages: 43-71
By: Wiedman, Dennis William.
Abstract
This case study in medical anthropology details the technological developments which happened concurrently with the first detrimental symptoms of type II diabetes mellitus among the Cherokee of Oklahoma following the year 1940. Previous to this year there were no reported diabetic cases among Oklahoma Native Americans, but by the 1960s this disease have reached epidemic proportions. Based on ethnographic, historic and archaeological records the author documents the Cherokee's rapid cultural change from an agricultural to an industrial economy over a ten year period from 1936 to 1946. This infrastructural change resulted in nutritional and lifestyle changes which contributed to obesity and the onset of detrimental diabetic symptoms (p. 66).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Physician
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field Date
- 1977-1979
- Coverage Date
- 1838-1990
- Coverage Place
- southeastern states and Oklahoma, United States
- Notes
- Dennis W. Wiedman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-71)
- LCCN
- 87011988
- LCSH
- Cherokee Indians