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Published: 15 June 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387800-031
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8780-0
Published: 03 February 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024064-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9311-4
Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 13 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027539-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2753-9
... This chapter returns to the opening scene of the introduction. While measuring the metabolism of Indigenous men of the central desert in 1931, Cedric Stanton Hicks observed their ability to sleep naked in below-freezing conditions. He wondered if he was witnessing a form of temporary hibernation...
Published: 12 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059097-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5909-7
... The chapter examines representations of different regimes of racialized labor through an analytic of metabolism. It presents a reading of Titus Kaphar's A Pillow for Fragile Fictions (2016), a sculpture which deconstructs the myth of George Washington by positioning his bust on its side...
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...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374442
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...
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 ...
Published: 24 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7329-2
... cybernetics information society Isozaki Arata metabolism biopolitics ...
Book Chapter

By Amber Jamilla Musser
Published: 12 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5909-7
... Titus Kaphar metabolism rest racial capitalism temporality ...
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...
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By Elspeth Probyn
Published: 18 November 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7379-7
... forage fish fishmeal/fish oil trophic cascade integrated marine trophic aquaculture metabolic intimacy ...
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
... to change national guidelines for the Body Mass Index, and how overnight, millions of Indians were suddenly considered overweight. This generated a problem of matching metabolisms to persons over generations. Public health policies and their biological rationales circulated popularly imagined oppositions...
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
... of bodily threat. Metabolism in this chapter is commercially gendered, through the sciences of food processing and food adulteration. On one hand, because many packaged foods were snacks, physicians and nutritionists derided them for being unhealthy and causing weight gain. On the other hand, their aseptic...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7444-2