Sugar & Modernity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Paperback)

Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases related to modern lifestyles have spread with frightening speed all over the globe, a development that is often correlated with an increase in the consumption of sugar. Latin America - the cradle of the worlds sugar production - is no exception; it has witnessed an explosion of cases of diabetes, especially in Brazil and Mexico. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the problem, this book asks two questions. First, what are the relationships between diabetes, sugar intake, and dangerous modern lifestyles? And second, how can research into the material, symbolic, and historical functions of sugar redefine the concept of modernity? Experts in medical science, agriculture, sociology, food science and anthropology, as well as in Latin American, Brazilian, and literary studies use sugar as a prism for understanding the complicated relations between disease and cultural and social habits, between past and present, and between symbolic meanings and material effect. Through this truly interdisciplinary perspective, both traditional approaches to lifestyle diseases and current understandings of modernity are questioned. Sugar and Modernity in Latin America serves as an example of and a call for interdisciplinary dialogue in response to the grand challenges of modern society.

General

Imprint:	Aarhus University Press
Country of origin:	Denmark
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Vinicius De Carvalho • Susanne Hojlund • Per Bendix Jeppesen
Dimensions:	140 x 220 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	172
ISBN-13:	978-87-7124-110-5
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Endocrinology > Diabetes Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	87-7124-110-8
Barcode:	9788771241105

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