Making Diabetes
The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Abbreviations
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Introduction
Seiten 9 - 28 -
1. "If you are lacking insulin" – Diabetes Mellitus
Seiten 29 - 50 -
2. (Un)measured yet (un)seen
Seiten 51 - 72 -
3. Thinking beyond the evident
Seiten 73 - 96 -
4. A 'simple' technology and its translations: the glucometer
Seiten 97 - 118 -
5. Diagnostic detours and a logic of chance
Seiten 119 - 148 -
6. My numbers and my-Self
Seiten 149 - 176 -
7. Seek and you shall find: Medical Outreaches
Seiten 177 - 208 -
Concluding Remarks
Seiten 209 - 216 -
References
Seiten 217 - 242
18 December 2019, 242 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4897-7
File size: 1.25 MB
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