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Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
Published: 16 October 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478012320-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1232-0
Book Chapter

By Harris Solomon
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... temporality hunger consumption absorption ...
Book Chapter

By Harris Solomon
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... metabolism Mumbai absorption epidemiological transition methodology ...
Book Chapter

By Harris Solomon
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... The introduction lays out the key arguments of the book. It proposes and explicates the book’s overarching concepts of “metabolic living” and “absorption” in order to foreground the work that people do to endure living with life-depleting and life-giving substances on a daily basis. A detailed...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... Chapter 1 asks: How does fat get into individual and collective bodies? This chapter is concerned with absorption between past and present times. It elaborates the feature of bodily plasticity by questioning the condition of “globesity,” the supposed West-to-East flow of capital and consumerist...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... Chapter 2 is concerned with absorption between persons and urban space. Moving from the scales of the globe and nation toward the scale of the street, it addresses how metabolism is spatial, and how biomedical sciences and the science of urban politics overlap. Mumbai’s famous fried street food...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... Chapter 3 introduces the blur between food and drugs. It is concerned with absorption between persons and markets. It considers the feature of processing and explores the social lives of processed foods to examine relations crafted between forms of domesticity, market forces, and discourses...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... Chapter 4 asks how metabolism is diagnosable and treatable, through the sciences of diabetology, nutrition, and surgical amputation. It is concerned with absorption between persons and clinics. Ethnographically, it is anchored in the clinic and works through substances like calories, insulin...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... Chapter 5 examines to what extent metabolisms are renewable and even replaceable, through the feature of willpower and the science of surgery. It is concerned with absorptions between the body and willpower. It considers what kinds of treatment for obesity are possible when drugs and diet fail...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
... The book’s conclusion discusses how an inquiry into ideas and experiences of absorption allows food to be important to the story of metabolic illness, but disallows food’s exclusive reign as an end unto itself. Attention to food’s movements in and out of bodies and surroundings demonstrates how...
Book Chapter

By Harris Solomon
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
Book Chapter

By Harris Solomon
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2
Book Chapter

By Harris Solomon
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2