...This chapter addresses the ramifications of the use of genetics to think, talk, and solve the problems of type 2 diabetes. The politics of knowledge claims about diabetes is reported. Then, the chapter shows that something unique occurs when the embodied inflections of a natural or cultural...

...This ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one which affects ethnic groups disproportionately. The book follows blood donations from “Mexican American” donors to laboratories...