Making Diabetes
Autor: | Arlena Siobhan Liggins |
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EAN: | 9783839448977 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 20.01.2020 |
Untertitel: | The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda |
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Schlagworte: | Africa Cultural Anthropo Cultural Anthropology Diabetes Diabetes Diagnosis Ethnology Ethnology Global Health Medicine Medicine Postcolonialism Postcolonialism Sociology of Medicine Sociology of Medicine Uganda Uganda |
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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.
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.