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Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic

Name: Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520297548
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Contributors:

Amy Moran-Thomas

Publisher:

University of California Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Health & Fitness

Book Subcategory:

Anthropology, Diseases & Conditions

Book Topic:

Cultural & Social, Diabetes

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Release Date:

2019-12-03

ISBN 13:

9780520297548

Weight:

1.1 lbs

Size:

8.80 x 6.00 x 1.20 inches

Pages:

384

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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.

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

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