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Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Anthony Ryan Hatch
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Description for Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354.
Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have circulated in medical journals for decades. Blood Sugar analyzes and challenges the ways in which metabolic syndrome has become a major biomedical category that medical researchers have created to better understand the risks high blood pressure, blood sugar, body fat, and cholesterol pose to people. An estimated sixty million Americans are well on the way to being diagnosed with it, many of them belonging to ... Read more
Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have circulated in medical journals for decades. Blood Sugar analyzes and challenges the ways in which metabolic syndrome has become a major biomedical category that medical researchers have created to better understand the risks high blood pressure, blood sugar, body fat, and cholesterol pose to people. An estimated sixty million Americans are well on the way to being diagnosed with it, many of them belonging to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
354g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816696178
SKU
V9780816696178
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About Anthony Ryan Hatch
Anthony Ryan Hatch is associate professor in the Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University.
Reviews for Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
A highly readable account of the emergence and import of metabolic syndrome, a biomedical category of risk designed to capture the dangers of stroke, heart disease, and diabetes... Metabolic syndrome provides a fascinating window into contemporary racialized biomedical conceptualizations of risk, and Blood Sugar is the first sustained sociological analysis of it. -Bulletin of the History of Medicine ... Read more