Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic

Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness...
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Author: Amy Moran-Thomas
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Language: English
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Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic by Moran-Thomas, Amy

Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic

$131.93

Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic

$131.93
Author: Amy Moran-Thomas
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 cr nicas--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.

Author: Amy Moran-Thomas
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780520297548


Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2020

About the Author
Amy Moran-Thomas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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