Gretchen Chesley Lang
Biographic Data
| ID | 88025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gretchen Chesley Lang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gretchen Chesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Lang |
| SIGNATURE | LANG G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Dakota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Council For Nutritional Anthropology
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Council on Nutritional Anthropology
"Making sense" about diabetes
Diabetes, as it has increasingly affected Dakota (Sioux) in a North Dakota community, is deliberated upon by patients in commentaries that range beyond the more familiar biomedical "boundaries" of a given health condition. These commentaries--or "narrative reconstructions"--following Williams and Wood's (1986) considerations of patients "making sense" of illness and the disruption it may cause, touch upon larger concerns of Dakota regarding cultu…
Oglala Women
Concepts of illness and disease
Helman, Cecil. Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals. Bristol, London, Boston: Wright‐PSG, 1984. xi + 242 pp. including figures, appendix, references, index. $33.00 cloth, $16.50 paper. Hudson, Robert P. Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. xvii + 259 pp. including abbreviations of journals, appendix, bibliographic notes, index. $29.95 cloth
Communication Part Two
Making A Living A Hard Way
Survival Strategies of Chippewa Drinkers in Minneapolis
Subsistence and social strategies of Chippeva men in Minneapolis, self‐defined as “drinkers”, are described in an attempt to view behaviors generally classified as “social problem behaviors” within their sociocultural context. A number of characteristics of their urban lifestyle are shared with the larger Indian population as well as with other non‐Indian poor, and it is argued that alcohol‐related problems are part of but not necessarily determi…
"Making sense" about diabetes
Diabetes, as it has increasingly affected Dakota (Sioux) in a North Dakota community, is deliberated upon by patients in commentaries that range beyond the more familiar biomedical "boundaries" of a given health condition. These commentaries--or "narrative reconstructions"--following Williams and Wood's (1986) considerations of patients "making sense" of illness and the disruption it may cause, touch upon larger concerns of Dakota regarding cultu…
Survival Strategies of Chippewa Drinkers in Minneapolis
Subsistence and social strategies of Chippeva men in Minneapolis, self‐defined as “drinkers”, are described in an attempt to view behaviors generally classified as “social problem behaviors” within their sociocultural context. A number of characteristics of their urban lifestyle are shared with the larger Indian population as well as with other non‐Indian poor, and it is argued that alcohol‐related problems are part of but not necessarily determi…
Survival Strategies of Chippewa Drinkers in Minneapolis
Subsistence and social strategies of Chippeva men in Minneapolis, self‐defined as “drinkers”, are described in an attempt to view behaviors generally classified as “social problem behaviors” within their sociocultural context. A number of characteristics of their urban lifestyle are shared with the larger Indian population as well as with other non‐Indian poor, and it is argued that alcohol‐related problems are part of but not necessarily determi…
Concepts of illness and disease
Helman, Cecil. Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals. Bristol, London, Boston: Wright‐PSG, 1984. xi + 242 pp. including figures, appendix, references, index. $33.00 cloth, $16.50 paper. Hudson, Robert P. Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. xvii + 259 pp. including abbreviations of journals, appendix, bibliographic notes, index. $29.95 cloth
Communication Part Two
Making A Living A Hard Way
Oglala Women
"Making sense" about diabetes
Diabetes, as it has increasingly affected Dakota (Sioux) in a North Dakota community, is deliberated upon by patients in commentaries that range beyond the more familiar biomedical "boundaries" of a given health condition. These commentaries--or "narrative reconstructions"--following Williams and Wood's (1986) considerations of patients "making sense" of illness and the disruption it may cause, touch upon larger concerns of Dakota regarding cultu…
Council on Nutritional Anthropology
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Council For Nutritional Anthropology
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Council for Nutritional Anthropology
Sociology (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Citation (7 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (7 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (7 works) · Library science (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)