Metabolic Living - Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

Informationen zum Autor Harris Solomon Klappentext Harris Solomon is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University.¿ Zusammenfassung In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction  1Interlude. Birthday Cakes  27 1. The Thin-Fat Indian  31Interlude. Mango Madness  65 2. The Taste No Chef Can Give  69Interlude. The Ration Card  99 3. Readying the Home  105Interlude. Stamps  141 4. Lines of Therapy  145Interlude. Waiting Room Walls  187 5. Gut Attachments  193 Conclusion. Metabolic Mumbai  225 Notes  235 Bibliography  253 Index  271

Product details

• Authors: Harris Solomon
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780822360872
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6087-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography; Critical Global Health: Eviden; Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography; Critical Global Health: Eviden
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology