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020 _a9783839448977
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024 7 _a10.1515/9783839448977
_2doi
035 _a(DE-B1597)9783839448977
035 _a(DE-B1597)528059
035 _a(OCoLC)1138030133
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
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050 4 _aRC660
_b.L544 2020
072 7 _aSOC002010
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082 0 4 _a616.462
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLiggins, Arlena Siobhan
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMaking Diabetes :
_bThe Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda /
_cArlena Siobhan Liggins.
264 1 _aBielefeld :
_btranscript Verlag,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c2019
300 _a1 online resource (242 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 0 _aMedical Humanities ;
_v2
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. “If you are lacking insulin” – Diabetes Mellitus --
_t2. (Un)measured yet (un)seen --
_t3. Thinking beyond the evident --
_t4. A ‘simple’ technology and its translations: the glucometer --
_t5. Diagnostic detours and a logic of chance --
_t6. My numbers and my-Self --
_t7. Seek and you shall find: Medical Outreaches --
_tConcluding Remarks --
_tReferences
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aDiabetes 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.
536 _afunded by Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 0 _aDiabetes.
650 4 _aAfrica.
650 4 _aCultural Anthropology.
650 4 _aDiabetes.
650 4 _aDiagnosis.
650 4 _aEthnology.
650 4 _aGlobal Health.
650 4 _aMedicine.
650 4 _aPostcolonialism.
650 4 _aSociology of Medicine.
650 4 _aUganda.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
_2bisacsh
653 _aAfrica.
653 _aCultural Anthropology.
653 _aDiabetes.
653 _aDiagnosis.
653 _aEthnology.
653 _aGlobal Health.
653 _aMedicine.
653 _aPostcolonialism.
653 _aSociology of Medicine.
653 _aUganda.
710 2 _aBayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
_efondatore di un'opera
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783839448977?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839448977
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839448977/original
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