TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liggins,Arlena Siobhan
ED  - Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
TI  - Making Diabetes: The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda 
T2  - Medical Humanities
SN  - 9783839448977
AV  - RC660 .L544 2020
U1  - 616.462 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Diabetes
KW  - Africa
KW  - Cultural Anthropology
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Global Health
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Sociology of Medicine
KW  - Uganda
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839448977?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839448977
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839448977/original
ER  -