TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moran-Thomas,Amy
TI  - Traveling with sugar: chronicles of a global epidemic
SN  - 9780520969858
AV  - RA645.D5 M67 2019eb
U1  - 616.4/62 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Diabetes
KW  - Belize
KW  - Diabetics
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Diabetes Mellitus
KW  - Diabétiques
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - Diabète
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Anthropologische Medizin
KW  - gnd
KW  - Epidemie
KW  - Ernährungskrankheit
KW  - Ernährungswissenschaft
KW  - Garifuna
KW  - Gesundheitswesen
KW  - Kulturanthropologie
KW  - Lebensbedingungen
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part One. Contexts.  Approach: emergency in slow motion -- Past is prologue: sugar machine -- What is communicable?: caregivers in an illegible epidemic -- Part Two. Crónicas.  Crónica one, thresholds: traveling an altered landscape with Cresencia -- Crónica two, insula: technology, policy, and other units of Jordan's isolations -- Crónica three, generations: approaching "metabolic memory" with Arreini and Guillerma -- Crónica four, repair work: maintenance projects with Laura, Jose, and growing collectives -- Epilogue -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- About translations -- Image credits -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "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 in Garifuna Belize say, "traveling with sugar." A decade in the making, this book reveals 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. Guiding us into the surprising landscapes of global diabetes, these individuals speak back to science and policy misrecognitions that have prematurely cast their lost limbs and deaths as normal. Facing a new incarnation of blood sugar, they practice their arts of maintenance and repair, illuminating ongoing struggles to survive and remake larger systems of food, land, technology, and medicine"--Provided by publisher
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