For Doucet-Battle, diabetes risk must be understood "as a cultural theory of labor in relation to capital" (p. What differs are the structural conditions of life: where one lives and labors, the resources at one's disposal, the foods that are available and affordable, one's access to quality health care-all of which are products of "the historical conditions of unequal exchange that reproduce society, race, and gender" (p. In this world of consumption and capital, everyone is at the same biological risk of developing diabetes. He assails the claim that racial categories are useful in efforts to lower diabetes rates and eliminate health disparities, arguing instead that the use of racial categories drives up those rates by rendering invisible the historical forces that have produced inequalities. In Sweetness in the Blood, the medical sociologist James Doucet-Battle offers an impassioned critique of the centrality of biological race in the production of scientific knowledge about health disparities in type 2 diabetes.
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