Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:30pm to 7pm
About this Event
In launching the new book, Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes, James Doucet-Battle, a medical anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the UC Santa Cruz, takes up the important task of weaving together complex strands of theory, practice, and experience into a coherent narrative about Type 2 diabetes, a seemingly simple disease to understand. Sweetness in the Blood takes the reader on an unexpected journey in a critical examination of three successive and interrelated technological moments between 2008-2012, when causal explanations of Type 2 diabetes changed radically. Sweetness in the Blood tells how the drive to collect African-descent human DNA faces long standing challenges to overcome public distrust in biomedical research and why the gendered directionality of genomic research on Type 2 diabetes raises both novel and enduring issues of social injustices, community resource disparities, and racial exclusion from the wider socioeconomic field.
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