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

By:

Liggins, Arlena Siobhan [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

3839448972
9783839448977

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making Diabetes : The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda.DDC classification:

616.462 23

LOC classification:

RC660 .L544 2020

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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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In English.

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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