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Making Diabetes The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda Arlena Siobhan Liggins
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Liggins, Arlena Siobhan <p>Arlena Siobhan Liggins, Berlin, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Medical humanities ; Volume 2.
- Medical Humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical Anthropology.
- Global Health.
- Uganda.
- Diabetes.
- Diagnosis.
- Medicine.
- Postcolonialism.
- Ethnology.
- Sociology of Medicine.
- Cultural Anthropology.
- Africa.
- Local Subjects:
- Medical Anthropology.
- Global Health.
- Uganda.
- Diabetes.
- Diagnosis.
- Medicine.
- Postcolonialism.
- Ethnology.
- Sociology of Medicine.
- Cultural Anthropology.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Liggins, Making Diabetes The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Abbreviations 7 Introduction 9 1. "If you are lacking insulin" - Diabetes Mellitus 29 2. (Un)measured yet (un)seen 51 3. Thinking beyond the evident 73 4. A 'simple' technology and its translations: the glucometer 97 5. Diagnostic detours and a logic of chance 119 6. My numbers and my-Self 149 7. Seek and you shall find: Medical Outreaches 177 Concluding Remarks 209 References 217
- Notes:
- Doctoral Thesis Universität Bayreuth 2018
- ISBN:
- 9783839448977
- 3839448972
- OCLC:
- 1138030133
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