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 "...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moran-Thomas, Amy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California University of California Press [2019]
Temas:
Diabetes > Belize.
Diabetics > Case studies.
Diabetes.
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabétiques > Études de cas.
Diabète.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural
Diabetes
Diabetics
Anthropologische Medizin
Epidemie
Ernährungskrankheit
Ernährungswissenschaft
Garifuna
Gesundheitswesen
Kulturanthropologie
Lebensbedingungen
Belize
Case Reports
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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