Liggins Making Diabetes

The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4897-7
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Medical Humanities

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liggins, Arlena Siobhan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie

Über Autor(innen)

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.