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Making Diabetes : The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda / Arlena Siobhan Liggins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Medical Humanities ; 2Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020]Copyright date: 2019Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839448977
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.462 23
LOC classification:
  • RC660 .L544 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. “If you are lacking insulin” – Diabetes Mellitus -- 2. (Un)measured yet (un)seen -- 3. Thinking beyond the evident -- 4. A ‘simple’ technology and its translations: the glucometer -- 5. Diagnostic detours and a logic of chance -- 6. My numbers and my-Self -- 7. Seek and you shall find: Medical Outreaches -- Concluding Remarks -- References
Summary: Diabetes is regarded as one of the most challenging global health issues of the 21st century. Especially countries with weak health infrastructure are struggling to deal with the increased demands this chronic disease entails.Tracing the effects of a diagnostic device, the glucometer, this book examines how it contributes to the making of diabetes in contemporary Uganda. Arlena S. Liggins demonstrates that depending on who uses the glucometer, the outcomes may go far beyond diagnosis. The book draws a complex picture of hopes and misplaced expectations, of trust and mistrust in a technology to which access in the first place is all but a given.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783839448977

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. “If you are lacking insulin” – Diabetes Mellitus -- 2. (Un)measured yet (un)seen -- 3. Thinking beyond the evident -- 4. A ‘simple’ technology and its translations: the glucometer -- 5. Diagnostic detours and a logic of chance -- 6. My numbers and my-Self -- 7. Seek and you shall find: Medical Outreaches -- Concluding Remarks -- References

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Diabetes is regarded as one of the most challenging global health issues of the 21st century. Especially countries with weak health infrastructure are struggling to deal with the increased demands this chronic disease entails.Tracing the effects of a diagnostic device, the glucometer, this book examines how it contributes to the making of diabetes in contemporary Uganda. Arlena S. Liggins demonstrates that depending on who uses the glucometer, the outcomes may go far beyond diagnosis. The book draws a complex picture of hopes and misplaced expectations, of trust and mistrust in a technology to which access in the first place is all but a given.

funded by Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)