Taking Health to the Streets in Puerto Rico

Resisting Gastronomic, Psychiatric, and Diabetes Colonialism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Taking Health to the Streets in Puerto Rico: Resisting Gastronomic, Psychiatric, and Diabetes Colonialism traces the ways in which diabetes, depression, and food insecurity interact under the rule of US colonization in Puerto Rico as well as the ways in which these illnesses are interlaced with contemporary culture, colonization, and politics. Central to the book, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of politicized health and the embodiment of identity and social inequality in Puerto Rico. Ultimately, the advancement of health equity in Puerto Rico is a matter of decolonization, and vice versa.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-21
Mått:158 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666922073

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Shir Lerman Ginzburg is assistant professor of public health at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University.

Recensioner i media

Written from the perspective of biocultural critical medical anthropology, but adding to the powerful legacy of Sidney Mintz’s influential book Sugar and Power, Shir Lerman Ginzburg offers a moving ethnographic account of sugar colonialism, diabetes, depression, and food insecurity in Puerto Rico. Rich with the perspectives and experiences of her interlocutor participants, this insightful text is a significant contribution to the decolonization of health movement.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: The Individual and the HistoricalChapter 1 Gastronomic Colonization: The Politics of Food InsecurityChapter 2 Melancholy and Power[lessness]: Depression in the Age of ColonizationChapter 3 Diabetes: The Pissing EvilePart II: The Social and the StructuralChapter 4 Loved and Loathed: Structural Health and Politics in Puerto RicoChapter 5 Biological ViolenceChapter 6 Health in the Streets: Taking Action for Puerto Rico