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Amy

Moran-Thomas

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Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic

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Oakland, CA

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University of California Press

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2019

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384

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Alyshia Gálvez

Lehman College of the City University of New York

E-mail: alyshia.galvez@lehman.cuny.edu

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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 76, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 120–122, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jraa047

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12 November 2020

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“Welcome to the strange world of diabetes

It is very different from what you have been taught

Come take a look from the inside

It’s not what you think from out there” – Dr. W. (p.85)

Amy Moran-Thomas opens this volume with a definition from the Belize Kriol dictionary: Travel with: to be troubled with, suffer from; have a recurring medical problem. In this ethnography, she travels with people who suffer from diabetes in Belize, a master class in accompaniment which she delivers as both a recipe for anthropological inquiry and a prescription for ethically compassionate research. Her goal is to “travel part of the way with them: to be worthy company when people invited me somewhere” (pp.12-13). Traveling with those who travel with diabetes as they seek medical care at home, in the capital city, across the border in Mexico and in the United States, and as they move in their daily rounds and balance conflicting needs and commitments, medical anthropologist Moran-Thomas presents a fresh perspective on a disease so common, so mundane, that it is deeply misunderstood, if not overlooked entirely.

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