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Sweetness in the Blood
- Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
Decades of data cannot be ignored: African-American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. But has science gone so far in racializing diabetes as to undermine the search for solutions? In a rousing indictment of the idea that notions of biological race should drive scientific inquiry, Sweetness in the Blood provides an ethnographic picture of biotechnology's framings of Type 2 diabetes risk and race and, importantly, offers a critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research.
James Doucet-Battle begins with a historical overview of how diabetes has been researched and framed racially over the past century, chronicling one company's efforts to recruit African Americans to test their new diabetes risk-score algorithm with the aim of increasing the clinical and market value of the firm's technology. He considers African-American reticence about participation in biomedical research and examines race and health disparities in light of advances in genomic sequencing technology. He concludes by emphasizing that genomic research into sub-Saharan ancestry in fact underlines the importance of analyzing gender before attempting to understand the notion of race. No disease reveals this more than Type 2 diabetes.
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- Sara D
- 06-05-23
Very interesting book, poorly narrated
I am so very sorry to leave a not-so-great review. The book is fascinating but the narration is really not up to scratch and hinders understanding. For an academic book, that really does make a difference. I recommend the printed version of this volume, sorry.
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