Living with metabolism

Towards an anthropology of moving targets

Abstract

This presentation explores the mediation between global and situated knowledges of diabetes. My aim is to highlight how facts of biomedicine and cultural meanings of gender and ethnicity are made to articulate each other at the sites of public health and molecular biology and how, yet again, they are included in pharmaceutical marketing strategies and political agendas. The argument is that such inclusions and articulations are metabolically mediated.