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Emily Mendenhall’s Syndemic Suffering by Jessica Hardin
Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes Among Mexican Immigrant Women By Emily Mendenhall Left Coast Press Inc., 2012 Hardcover, 145 pages US $28.45 In Syndemic Suffering, Emily...
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Book Forum––Harris Solomon’s Metabolic Living: Food, Fat and The Absorption...
Harris Solomon’s Metabolic Living traces patterns of consumption, calories, and chronic disease to tell a story about the enfolding––the absorption and regulation––of food in and about the body in...
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Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India by Lisa Grabinsky
Sugar and Tension: Diabetes in Modern India Lesley Jo Weaver Rutgers University Press, 2019. 202 pages. Sugar and Tension is a must-read for anyone interested in how social constructions of gender...
View ArticleThe ‘chronic’ lives of failing organs: afflictions of ambivalent care in...
Life has always been difficult, Maria del Rosario told me, but she coped. That was before all the sickness. When her mother’s kidneys began to fail, she felt traumatised, utterly overwhelmed. No...
View ArticleThe new trial communities: challenges and opportunities in preconception...
The Excavating the Biosocial series has so far focused on birth cohorts as ethnographic object (Gibbon and Pentecost 2020). In this post, I explore the expansion of interest in the early life period,...
View ArticleNo Recipes––A Reply
In May 2016, I handed Metabolic Living to the individual I call Mary in its pages. For years she had guided me through the neighborhood that anchors the book, through homes and clinics and their...
View ArticleMetabolic Living with Madhur Jaffrey
After putting down Metabolic Living, I reached for Indian Cookery (1982), a volume of recipes originally prepared for British television by the still-undisputed doyen of Indian cooking outside of...
View ArticleMumbai Metabolism Mysteries
In Metabolic Living, Harris Solomon takes us to Mumbai, India’s largest city, to find out how people deal with illnesses attributed to modern food habits, especially to the overconsumption of fatty and...
View ArticleMeta-Metabolism, or Governing from the Inside Out
Harris Solomon’s Metabolic Living ruminates on the absorption of “metabolic disease” in India as a bio-political index for “globesity.” No doubt, from a public health perspective the questions of...
View ArticleMore Mango Madness
If you’ve entered the United States from abroad, it’s not unlikely you’ve smuggled food, whether craftily or cluelessly. In a given day, 400-600 pounds of foodstuff will be confiscated from passengers...
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