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Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic
Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic
Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic
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Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic

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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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 3, 2019
ISBN9780520969858
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Amy Moran-Thomas

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

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    crossposted from my goodreads review:
    i wish i had more energy and focus to give to this review. this book is so important and well written,researched and the subject lived with. i read a lot of medical/health history and am also diabetic,though more privileged than many who have it.

    the author spent a lot of time in belize,and particularly in a small village,and got to know many people who were living with diabetes in a place where getting the proper help - dialysis,glucometer and test strips,prostethics and even healthy food,were mostly unavailable or too expensive to afford.

    a history of colonialism and sugar plantations and the accompanying exploitation of certain peoples is explored,as well as a thorough overview of living with diabetes and its treatment or lack thereof.

    along with all that,it is well-written and engaging and i'm glad that i stumbled upon it while having a membership on scribd. i also felt that i got to know many of these people through the loving and thorough descriptions made by the author.

    i am going to recommend this to my local library.

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Traveling with Sugar - Amy Moran-Thomas

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