Savoring Care

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Flourishing with Diabetes Across Cultures

Jessica Hardin, Emily Mendenhall

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University of Toronto Press
01 February 2026

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Social & cultural anthropology; Diabetes; Coping with illness

How do our beliefs about living with chronic illness shape the way we approach treatment and care?

Savoring Care challenges conventional narratives about living with type 2 diabetes. A chronic condition defined by insulin resistance and radical transitions in lifestyle, type 2 diabetes care is infused with individual blame and attempts to foster biomedical control. This book moves the focus away from blame and stigma towards the ways people with this chronic illness foster care, resilience, and well-being in their daily lives. Rather than centring diabetes management solely on diet and personal responsibility, this book explores how individuals and communities support one another through shared meals, therapies, and other forms of practical care.

Drawing on rich ethnographic research, editors and anthropologists Jessica Hardin and Emily Mendenhall illuminate how people respond creatively to a diabetes diagnosis, developing nourishing practices that prioritize relationships, friendship, and mutual care from around the world. Blending compassionate storytelling with accessible analysis, Savoring Care critiques dominant models of health, which frame diabetes as a failure of willpower or lifestyle, and instead highlights the alternative logics available as well as the diverse, meaningful ways people adapt to live well, understand their bodies, and thrive.

Edited by: Jessica Hardin, Emily Mendenhall
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781487565701
ISBN 10: 1487565704
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jessica Hardin is a critical medical anthropologist, Honorable Barber B. Conable Jr. endowed chair and associate professor of anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist, Guggenheim fellow, and professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.