Women With Hypertension: An Ethnographic Inquiry

This dissertation documents the results of a 12-month ethnographic study of middle-aged black and white women (N = 45, aged 32-61), who had been diagnosed with essential hypertension and who were identified through one of two participating Champaign-Urbana, Illinois health care agencies. The ethnographic data were textually and statistically analyzed with appropriate qualitative and quantitative techniques.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Harmon, Adrienne Seccia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Shimkin, Demitri B.
• Lehman, Frederic K.

• Anthropology, Cultural
• Women's Studies
• Health Sciences, General

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9329053

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72391