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Diabetes mellitus and Oklahoma Native AmericansBook 1987 • Wiedman, Dennis William
Cherokee • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The author's stated goal is to indentify the factors which may underlie the high rate of diabetes mellitus among the Oklahoma Cherokees. To this end, the author adopts a cultural ecological perspective, of which he provides a theoretical discussion. ...Type II diabetes mellitusessay 1987 • Wiedman, Dennis William
Cherokee • North America > Eastern Woodlands
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 ...