In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived ‘war on obesity’ levelled at ‘unhealthy’ foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play? Sugar rush explores the social life of sugar in its rise to infamy. The book reveals how competing understandings of the ‘problem’ of sugar are smoothed over through appeals to science and the...
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something nee...
Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century. -- .
Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sec...
