Book ID: CBB847846810

Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic (2019)

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Moran-Thomas, Amy (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 384
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 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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Authors & Contributors
Cilli, Elisabetta
Alibrandi, Rosamaria
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
MacKay, Ruth
Traversari, Mirko
Tina Travagliante
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Public health
Medicine and society
Epidemics
Medicine
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
16th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
Sicily
United States
Spain
Europe
San Francisco (California)
Gulf of Mexico
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