Packaged Plants: Seductive Supplements and Metabolic Precarity in the Philippines

About the event:

Please join us with the authors Anita Hardon from the University of Wageningen, and Michael Lim Tam from the University of the Philippines, to discuss the launch of their open access publication ‘Packaged Plants. Seductive Supplements and metabolic precarity in the Philippines’  published by UCL Press as part of the Embodying Inequalities: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology Book series.  The book offers an absorbing ethnography and cultural history of how the production and consumption of plants for food and medicine has gone through ‘metabolic rifts’, increasingly processed into commodities with adverse impact on health and aggravating existing economic and social inequities. The book also describes ultra-processed foods that are linked to metabolic syndrome, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity.

We will also have the opportunity to hear from 3 commentators including Thomas Cousins from the University of Oxford, Cristina Juan from SOAS and Megan Vaughn from UCL.

Hosts: Health Mind and Society SHS strategic Initiative