Arlena Siobhan Liggins
Arlena Siobhan Liggins completed her doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth in 2018. She works as a Scientific Officer at the DLR Project Management Agency within the field of Global Health.
transcript-Publications in the Research Fields: Cultural Studies, Disability and Health Studies, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Ethnology, Sociology, Sociology of Science, Technology, and Environment
Publications in the Series: Medical Humanities
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Making Diabetes
The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
This book asks how the glucometer, the often only choice to diagnose diabetes in Uganda, contributes to the making of this disease in a setting with weak health infrastructure.
Book Chapter
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Making Diabetes
Frontmatter
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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