Traveling with Sugar : Chronicles of a Global Epidemic / Amy Moran-Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran-Thomas, Amy, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diabetes--Belize.

Diabetes.

Diabetics--Case studies.

Diabetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 crónicas—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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Approach

Past Is Prologue

What Is Communicable?

Crónica One: Thresholds

Crónica Two: Insula

Crónica Three: Generations

Crónica Four: Repair Work

Epilogue

Dedication

Acknowledgments

About Translations

Image Credits

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780520969858

0520969855

OCLC:

1163879258