Traveling With Sugar: Chronicles Of A Global Epidemic Hardcover English by Amy Moran-Thomas - 13-Dec-19
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| Publisher | University of California Press |
| ISBN 13 | 9780520297531 |
| Author | Amy Moran-Thomas |
| Language | English |
| Book Subtitle | Chronicles Of A Global Epidemic |
| Book Description | Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness and power. Amid eerie injuries, changing bodies, amputated limbs, and untimely deaths, many people across the Caribbean and Central America simply call the affliction "sugar"-or, as some say in Belize, "traveling with sugar." A decade in the making, this book unfolds as a series of cronicas-a word meaning both slow-moving story and slow-moving disease. It profiles the careful work of those "still fighting it" as they grapple with unequal material infrastructures and unsettling dilemmas. Facing a new incarnation of blood sugar, these individuals speak back to science and policy misrecognitions that have prematurely cast their lost limbs and deaths as normal. Their families' arts of maintenance and repair illuminate ongoing struggles to survive and remake larger systems of food, land, technology, and medicine. |
| Editorial Review | Thoughtfully organized and powerfully written, this poetic piece humanizes both those who need care and those trying to provide that care. Traveling with Sugar can and should be taught in both undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology, sociology, global health, and health disparity courses. New Florida Journal of Anthropology "This well-researched ethnography is an excellent addition to existing scholarship in that it offers fresh perspectives on the global history of sweetness and power and the ways in which this relationship continues to shape human health." CHOICE "A welcome contribution to medical anthropology and will also appeal to readers more generally interested in medical inequalities and global health policy." Anthropology Book Forum |
| About the Author | Amy Moran-Thomas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| Publication Date | 13-Dec-19 |
| Number of Pages | 384 |
Traveling With Sugar: Chronicles Of A Global Epidemic Hardcover English by Amy Moran-Thomas - 13-Dec-19
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