9780520297548-0520297547-Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic

Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic

ISBN-13: 9780520297548
ISBN-10: 0520297547
Edition: First Edition
Author: Moran-Thomas
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 384 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520297548
ISBN-10: 0520297547
Edition: First Edition
Author: Moran-Thomas
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 384 pages

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Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic (ISBN-13: 9780520297548 and ISBN-10: 0520297547), written by authors Moran-Thomas, was published by University of California Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Diseases & Physical Ailments (Caribbean & West Indies, Americas History, Social Aspects, Technology, Public Health, Administration & Medicine Economics, Cultural, Anthropology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Diseases & Physical Ailments books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.05.

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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 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.
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