Traveling with Sugar
Chronicles of a Global Epidemic
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Amy Moran-Thomas
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Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a 500-year-old global history of sweetness and power.
Amid eerie injuries, changing bodies, amputated limbs, and untimely deaths, many people across the Caribbean and Central America simply call the affliction "sugar" - or, as some say in Belize, "traveling with sugar". A decade in the making, this audiobook unfolds as a series of cronicas - a word meaning both slow-moving story and slow-moving disease. It profiles the careful work of those "still fighting it" as they grapple with unequal material infrastructures and unsettling dilemmas. Facing a new incarnation of blood sugar, these individuals speak back to science and policy misrecognitions that have prematurely cast their lost limbs and deaths as normal. Their families' arts of maintenance and repair illuminate ongoing struggles to survive and remake larger systems of food, land, technology, and medicine.
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State of the Heart
- Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
- De: Haider Warraich
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of heart disease women experience is diametrically different from that in men. We are learning that heart disease and cancer may have more in common than we could have imagined. And we are learning how human evolution itself may have led to the epidemic of heart disease
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good information, bad organization
- De Conor Cox en 09-03-19
De: Haider Warraich
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Changing the Way We Die
- Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement
- De: Sheila Himmel, Fran Smith
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care - nearly 44 percent of all deaths - and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sadly, not very engaging.
- De Debra S. Long en 06-16-18
De: Sheila Himmel, y otros
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds
- Ebola and the Ravages of History
- De: Paul Farmer
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 22 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 81
In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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CRITICAL LISTENING for 2020!
- De Vin en 11-17-20
De: Paul Farmer
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Inferno
- A Doctor's Ebola Story
- De: Steven Hatch MD
- Narrado por: Steven Hatch MD
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013 to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose of the bodies.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good story, spoiled by politics.
- De Roman Vogel en 07-22-17
De: Steven Hatch MD
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Asleep
- The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
- De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 393
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 356
In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they try to solve this epidemic and treat its victims - who learned the worst fate was not dying of it, but surviving it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Scary, and still unsolved, medical mystery
- De joyce en 12-14-14
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Heart
- A History
- De: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 573
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 508
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As cardiologist and best-selling author Sandeep Jauhar tells in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Insight
- De Ironcharles en 10-27-18
De: Sandeep Jauhar
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Early
- An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human
- De: Sarah DiGregorio
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
The heart of many hospitals is the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It is a place where humanity, ethics, and science collide in dramatic and deeply personal ways as parents, doctors, and nurses grapple with sometimes unanswerable questions: When does life begin? When and how should life end? And what does it mean to be human? Nearly 20 years ago, Dr. John D. Lantos wrote The Lazarus Case, a seminal work on ethical dilemmas in neonatology. He described the NICU as “a strong, strange, powerful place”. The
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping read for this late preterm infant mom
- De R. Ash en 08-08-21
De: Sarah DiGregorio
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God's Hotel
- A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
- De: Victoria Sweet
- Narrado por: Victoria Sweet
- Duración: 13 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 366
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves - "anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care - ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for 20 years. Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De kayla solomon en 04-08-17
De: Victoria Sweet
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Like a Mother
- A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
- De: Angela Garbes
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega, Angela Garbes
- Duración: 7 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 701
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 609
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 605
What to listen to after What to Expect.... A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives. Like most first-time mothers, Angela Garbes was filled with questions when she became pregnant. What exactly is a placenta? How does a body go into labor? Why is breast best? What are the signs and effects of postpartum depression?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Microchimerism - interesting at first, then profoundly healing
- De Emily Virgil en 09-10-18
De: Angela Garbes
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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses
- From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19
- De: Heather E. Quinlan
- Narrado por: Samara Naeymi
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
It can come in waves - like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat elemental
- De Bertha Watkins en 10-23-21
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Manual for Survival
- A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
- De: Kate Brown
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
After 1991, international organizations from the Red Cross to Greenpeace sought to help the victims, yet found themselves stymied by post-Soviet political circumstances they did not understand. International diplomats and scientists allied to the nuclear industry evaded or denied the fact of a wide-scale public health disaster caused by radiation exposure. Efforts to spin the story about Chernobyl were largely successful; the official death toll ranges between 31 and 54 people. In reality, radiation exposure from the disaster caused between 35,000 and 150,000 deaths in Ukraine alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read this timely book
- De Amazon Customer en 03-26-22
De: Kate Brown
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Beating Back the Devil
- De: Maryn McKenna
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
The universal instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease. These doctors run toward it. They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than 24 hours before they are dispatched. They are told only their country of destination and the epidemic they will tackle when they get there.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Stuff - Only criticism is pacing
- De Tim en 07-23-05
De: Maryn McKenna
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
- A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
- De: Sallie Tisdale
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Listen to a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guides - a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you. The fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortable - but she also explores its intimacies and joys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I thought I had more time...
- De Alyssa en 09-09-19
De: Sallie Tisdale
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Healthy at 100
- De: John Robbins
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 161
Why do some people age in failing health and sadness, while others grow old with vitality and joy? In this revolutionary audiobook, best-selling author John Robbins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, showing us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Changed my Life
- De David Shear en 05-23-13
De: John Robbins
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The Problem of Alzheimer's
- How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
- De: Jason Karlawish
- Narrado por: Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more than half a million died because of the disease and its devastating complications. Sixteen million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their 70s and 80s, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2025. Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future of the disease, The Problem of Alzheimer's traces Alzheimer’s from its beginnings to its recognition as a crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read
- De kara kuntz en 05-20-21
De: Jason Karlawish
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The Family Gene
- A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
- De: Joselin Linder
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
When Joselin Linder was in her 20s, her legs started to swell. She thought little of it until her health problems started to compound in ways that baffled her doctors. Diagnosed with extreme liver blockage and dangerous levels of lymph fluid, Joselin turned to the most similar case she could think of - her father's.
De: Joselin Linder
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
- The Path to a Better Way of Death
- De: Katy Butler
- Narrado por: Katy Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 139
Like so many of us, award-winning writer Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience healthy, active retirements before dying peacefully at home. Then her father suffered a stroke that left him incapable of easily finishing a sentence or showering without assistance. Her mother was thrust into full-time caregiving, and Katy became one of the 24 million Americans who help care for aging parents. In an effort to correct a minor and non - life threatening heart arrhythmia, doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A better way to narrate a book about death?
- De MAUREEN en 10-21-13
De: Katy Butler
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Traveling with Sugar
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Patrick Brown
- 12-28-20
Tragically beautiful
Really enjoyed this book. I pray it sheds more light on the world's biggest epidemic.
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- Marialena R. Anderson
- 09-19-21
A hidden truth
This is a heartbreaking and very present day chronicle of colonialism, slavery plantations and the effects of modern “civilization” on perceived lesser countries. The continuing damage of our sugar culture and careless use of chemicals on Belize leaves me horrified. Thank you Dr Moran-Thomas for being hung this reality to light.
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