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"Harris Solomon’s deft and beautifully written analysis makes a strong case for absorption as a key concept that will enable new understandings of global health and its politics; food and obesity as generative sites for reflection on complex transfo
The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes pose a problem of absorpt...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) | Harris Solomon. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
