I wanted to understand how this imagined community, to bring in Anderson, interacted with the biomedical message around Type 2 Diabetes: the technologies, the forms of discipline that are required in order to manage one’s diabetes. James Doucet-Battle: Well, the book began originally as an examination of Type 2 Diabetes among diagnosed African Americans.
So, I wonder, James, if you could just say more about that statement or that claim, that project, as a way of introducing the book and giving a short summary of it, to get us going. He writes that Sweetness in the Blood tries to challenge arguments claiming that collecting and filtering data according to racial categories offer the best approach to understanding, managing and curing Type 2 Diabetes. James is a medical anthropologist, working in the Sociology department at University of California Santa Cruz. My name is Paige Patchin and I’m delighted to welcome James Doucet-Battle here to join us to talk about his amazing book, Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk and Type 2 Diabetes, which came out in 2021. Paige Patchin: Welcome back to the SPRC podcast.
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