Diabetes-by-Proxy: Virtual Embodiment of Disease by Oklahoma Choctaw Parents of Children with Type 1 Diabetes
| Autor: | Kama King, Alisa Tomette, Amanda Hass, J. Neil Henderson, L. D. Carson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male Parents medicine.medical_specialty Fatal outcome Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Disease Proxy (climate) Diabetes mellitus medicine Oklahoma Choctaw Humans Psychiatry Child media_common Type 1 diabetes Anthropology Medical Oklahoma General Medicine medicine.disease Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 Caregivers Anthropology Indians North American Female Worry Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Medical anthropology quarterlyReferences Cited. 35(1) |
| ISSN: | 0745-5194 |
| Popis: | Childhood type 1 diabetes is increasing globally and requires meticulous at-home care due to risks for fatal outcomes if glucose levels are not continuously and correctly monitored. Type 1 diabetes research has focused on metabolism and stress measurements confirming high parental worry levels. However, research on caregivers' management strategies has lagged. We show parents' intense, all-encompassing work to preempt a disastrous drop in their child's glucose as a stress-path to the virtual embodiment of their child's condition. That is, parents acquire diabetes-by-proxy. Our findings derive from four and half years of ethnographic research with the same 19 families in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. These parents were exceptionally engaged as caregivers and distressed by the potentially fatal outcome of type 1 diabetes mismanagement. Diabetes-by-proxy names the parents' experience and validates clinical attention to them as they cope with their crucial caregiving commitment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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