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Blood sugar : racial pharmacology and food justice in Black America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hatch, Anthony Ryan, 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Subjects:
African Americans > Medical care.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Metabolic syndrome > Treatment.
Metabolic Syndrome > ethnology.
Metabolic Syndrome > therapy.
African Americans.
Healthcare Disparities > ethnology.
Racism.
United States.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the metabolic fetish
  • Race, biomedicine, and health injustice
  • The emergence of metabolic syndrome
  • The scientific racism of metabolism
  • Killer applications : the racial pharmacology of prescription drugs
  • Sugar stained with blood : African Americans, sugar, and modern agriculture
  • Conclusion : metabolic insurrection.