Sweetness in the blood : race, risk, and type 2 diabetes /

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"James Doucet-Battle offers an important critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doucet-Battle, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Temas:
Type 2 diabetes > Genetic aspects.
African Americans > Health and hygiene.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Medical anthropology.
Diabète de type 2 > Aspect génétique.
Noirs américains > Santé et hygiène.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
MEDICAL / History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Sugar’s racial project: from slavery to diabetes
  • 1. The at-risk ethnographer of sweetness
  • 2. Sweet blood: inventing the prediabetic
  • 3. Algorithms of risk and race: recruiting Black risk and marketing Black bodies
  • 4. A dark past in present light: the Black church, medicine, and trust
  • 5. The ascension of the Black matriarch: the search for metabolic Africa
  • Conclusion. The racialized pancreas: toward biosocial justice
  • Acknowledgments
  • A subversive glossary
  • Notes
  • Index.

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