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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 500-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 audiobook unfolds as a series of cronicas - 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.

©2019 Amy Moran-Thomas (P)2020 Tantor Physical Illness & Disease Social Sciences Anthropology
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Really enjoyed this book. I pray it sheds more light on the world's biggest epidemic.

Tragically beautiful

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This is a heartbreaking and very present day chronicle of colonialism, slavery plantations and the effects of modern “civilization” on perceived lesser countries. The continuing damage of our sugar culture and careless use of chemicals on Belize leaves me horrified. Thank you Dr Moran-Thomas for being hung this reality to light.

A hidden truth

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Amy Moran-Thomas beautifully documented and wrote this ethnography on diabetes in Belize! Although filled with tragic and disturbing stories, this book is definitely worth the read!

Amazing & Insightful Read!!

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