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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Arlena Liggins, Arlena Siobhan Liggins
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783837648973
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-4897-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 225 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 382 g
• Series: Medical Humanities; Medical Humanities (COL)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Nachhaltigkeit, Internationale Beziehungen, Öffentliche Verwaltung, Diabetes, Verstehen, Medizinsoziologie, Kulturanthropologie, Medizin, Gesundheit, Konsum, Uganda, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Ethnic Studies, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Völkerkunde, Sociology, Soziale Mobilität, Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Behinderung: soziale Aspekte, Cultural Studies, Medicine, Krankheit und Sucht: soziale Aspekte, Cultural Anthropology, Gewalt und Missbrauch in der Gesellschaft, Postcolonialism, Human Rights, Sociology of Medicine, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Africa, Social interaction, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, diagnosis, Nursing, Anthropologie / Kulturanthropologie, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Medizin / Soziologie, Ethnologie - Ethnisch, Ethnografie - Ethnographie, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Gesellschaft / Medizin, Gesundheitswesen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Ethnology, International Relations, Social Mobility, Political activism, Business ethics & social responsibility, Medical Anthropology; Global Health; Diagnosis; Medicine; Postcolonialism; Ethnology; Sociology of Medicine; Cultural Anthropology; Africa, Poverty & unemployment, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Social Work, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Political structure & processes, Food & society, Environmental Economics, Social welfare & social services, auseinandersetzen, Production, Global Health, Social, group or collective psychology, Public Administration, Political Economy, Pharmacology, Philosophy & theory of education, Social impact of environmental issues, Gender studies, gender groups, Disability: social aspects, Violence in society, African History, Impact of science & technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Bio-ethics, Population & demography, Human Geography, Development Studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Medical Sociology, Consumerism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Medical ethics & professional conduct, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Central government policies, Medical Anthropology, Politischer Aktivismus / Politisches Engagement, Culture and institutions, The political process, Factors affecting social behavior, Social problems and services, Social processes, Economics of land and energy, Macroeconomics and related topics, International migration and colonization, Groups of people, Public administration and military science, Political science (Politics and government), Medicine and health, Social problems of and services to groups of people, Occupational ethics, Civil and political rights, Ethics (Moral philosophy), Other ethical norms, Pharmacology and therapeutics, General customs