Название: Traveling with Sugar
Автор: Amy Moran-Thomas
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Здоровье
isbn: 9780520969858
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Traveling with Sugar
Traveling with Sugar
Chronicles of a Global Epidemic
Amy Moran-Thomas
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
University of California Press
Oakland, California
© 2019 by Amy Moran-Thomas
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Moran-Thomas, Amy, author.
Title: Traveling with sugar : chronicles of a global epidemic / Amy Moran-Thomas.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018054745 (print) | LCCN 2018056398 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520969858 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520297531 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780520297548 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Diabetes—Belize. | Diabetics—Case studies.
Classification: LCC RA645.D5 (ebook) | LCC RA645.D5 M67 2019 (print) | DDC 616.4/62—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018054745
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Travel with (chravl wid): to be troubled with, suffer from; have a recurring medical problem.
Travel (chravl): euphemism for being on one’s death bed.
—Belize Kriol dictionary
A lot of people, countrywide, in the whole entire world, here in Belize and Dangriga, are traveling with sugar . . .
—Anne, reflecting on diabetic sugar across three generations of her family, 2010
Contents
Shorelines—A Global Epidemic as Seen from Belize—Traveling with Sugar—Errata: Methods and Mistakes—Slow Care
Sweetness—Sugar Roads—Chronic Landscapes—Diabetes Multiple—Still. There
Caregivers in an Illegible Epidemic
Foot Soldiers—Non-Traumatic Measures—Displaced Surveillance—Mixed Metaphors—Para-Communicable Conditions—Geographies of Blame—Three Atmospheres
Traveling an Altered Landscape with Cresencia
The Normal and the Extraordinary—Ancestral Discontent—Coral Gardens and Their Metabolism—Sugar Girls—Land Tenure (Is This Legal?)—On the Other Side—Dr. Saldo—Great White Hazards—Healthy Living Made Fun and Easy!—Straddling
Crónica Two: Insula
Technology, Policy, and Other Units of Jordan’s Isolations
Type What?—Islands and Empire—Global Policy Gaps—Other Orphans—Unsteady Units—Many Machines—The Life of Muerte—Design Archipelagos—Counting
Crónica Three: Generations
Approaching “Biologies of History” with Arreini and Guillerma
Scientific Racism: Lineages—Housekeeping—Trans-Plantation—Epidemiological Transition—Hunger and Diabetes—What Is the “Epi” in Epigenetics?—Prevention—Blood’s Sugar—Quicksilver—Sequencing
Crónica Four: Repair Work
Maintenance Projects with Laura, Jose, and Growing Collectives
Halfway Technologies—Phantom Limbs—Sugar Shoes—Dialysis: Pressure—“We Don’t Want to Die”—Food Infrastructures—Between Hurricanes—Prosthetic Hope International—Holding Measures—The Gradual Instant
Epilogue
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About Translations
Image Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index
PART ONE
Contexts
Approach
Emergency in Slow Motion
Sugar . . . has been one of the massive demographic forces in world history.
—Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power
A lot of people, countrywide, in the whole entire world, here in Belize and Dangriga, are traveling with sugar.
Diabetic is a dangerous thing . . СКАЧАТЬ