Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Reproductive Politics of Food Allergy

1. The Moral Life of Epinephrine 

2. Who Is to Blame? Navigating the Causes and Cures for Food Allergy

3. The Hygienic Sublime: Making Food Safe for People with Food Allergies

4. Activist Politics: Disability Law, Legislative Advocacy, and Public Motherhood

5. The EpiPen Pricing Scandal and the Future of Food Allergy Advocacy

Conclusion: Activist Futures

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Danya Glabau is industry assistant professor and director of science and technology studies at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Reviews

"Examining the politics of protecting children with food allergies in the United States, Food Allergy Advocacy opens up a conversation between food allergy, whiteness, and disability to untangle contemporary health politics. It importantly brings feminist STS and disability studies to this understudied but widely cared about concern."-Michelle Murphy, author of The Economization of Life "Food Allergy Advocacy is a fascinating investigation of the complexities underlying our understanding of allergies in the United States. Through a rich ethnography of people’s experiences with allergies and with advocacy for better recognition and treatment, it focuses on the downloading of care and responsibility to manage food allergies onto families. In doing so, Danya Glabau not only illustrates the highly gendered, racialized, and heteronormative assumptions that configure allergy science and treatment, she also argues that allergy advocacy itself ends up reinforcing this problematic reproductive politics rather than challenging it. An essential read for anyone interested in the intersection of healthcare, patient advocacy, and technoscience."-Kean Birch, co-editor of Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism

"This is an exploration into the realities of food allergy care like no other. A great read for all who work, or plan to work, with allergy patients and their families and who want a deeper understanding of the major issues of care and advocacy for such patients’ improved support."-CHOICE