Traveling with sugar: chronicles of a global epidemic

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moran-Thomas, Amy
Other Authors: MIT Anthropology
Format: Book
Published: University of California Press 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125712