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Traveling with sugar
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ISBN: 0520969855 9780520969858 9780520297531 0520297539 9780520297548 0520297547 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oakland, California

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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 "sugar"--or, as some in Garifuna Belize say, "traveling with sugar." A decade in the making, this book reveals a series of crónicas--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. Guiding us into the surprising landscapes of global diabetes, these individuals speak back to science and policy misrecognitions that have prematurely cast their lost limbs and deaths as normal. Facing a new incarnation of blood sugar, they practice their arts of maintenance and repair, illuminating ongoing struggles to survive and remake larger systems of food, land, technology, and medicine"--Provided by publisher.


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When People Come First
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ISBN: 0691157383 1400846803 9780691157382 9780691157399 0691157391 9781400846801 9781299652187 1299652182 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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"When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The contributors explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast.When People Come First sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures"--

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World health. --- Public health --- Global health --- International health --- International cooperation. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization --- MEDICAL / Public Health --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- Medical geography --- International cooperation --- Global Health. --- International Cooperation. --- Public Health Practice. --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Health Practice, Public --- Health Practices, Public --- Practice, Public Health --- Practices, Public Health --- Public Health Practices --- Treaties --- Foreign Aid --- Aid, Foreign --- Cooperation, International --- Treaty --- International Health --- Worldwide Health --- International Health Problems --- World Health --- Health Problem, International --- Health Problems, International --- Health, Global --- Health, International --- Health, World --- Health, Worldwide --- Healths, International --- International Health Problem --- International Healths --- Problem, International Health --- Problems, International Health --- World Health Organization --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Santé mondiale --- Santé publique --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- Coopération internationale --- Global Health --- International Cooperation --- Public Health Practice --- AIDS. --- Botswana. --- Brazil. --- Chile. --- Ghana. --- HIV infection. --- HIV. --- India. --- Mozambique. --- PEPFAR. --- President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief. --- South Africa. --- Uganda. --- antidepressants. --- antiretroviral drugs. --- asthma. --- biomedical science. --- cancer care. --- case studies. --- childhood. --- chronic diseases. --- clinical care. --- compliance. --- depression. --- developing countries. --- diabetes. --- disease control. --- disease eradication programs. --- domestic relations. --- epidemics. --- epistemology. --- ethnography. --- evidence-based medicine. --- experimental research. --- global health science. --- global health. --- guinea worm. --- health activism. --- health care. --- health policy. --- health research. --- health rights. --- human rights. --- humanitarianism. --- international aid. --- intervention. --- malaria. --- mental health programs. --- micropolitics. --- moral economy. --- neoliberalism. --- obesity. --- palliation. --- psychopharmaceuticals. --- public health care system. --- public health services. --- public health. --- publicаrivate collaborations. --- right to know. --- social factors. --- social networks. --- social theory. --- tuberculosis treatment.


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Medical Humanitarianism

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