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Making Diabetes
The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
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1. “If you are lacking insulin” – Diabetes Mellitus
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2. (Un)measured yet (un)seen
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3. Thinking beyond the evident
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4. A ‘simple’ technology and its translations: the glucometer
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5. Diagnostic detours and a logic of chance
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6. My numbers and my-Self
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7. Seek and you shall find: Medical Outreaches
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Concluding Remarks
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eBook published on:
January 20, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783839448977
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242
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Keywords for this book
Medical Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Global Health; Global Health; Uganda; Uganda; Diabetes; Diabetes; Diagnosis; Diagnosis; Medicine; Medicine; Postcolonialism; Postcolonialism; Ethnology; Ethnology; Sociology of Medicine; Sociology of Medicine; Cultural Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology; Africa; Africa
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
