Making Diabetes: The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda Contributor(s): Liggins, Arlena Siobhan (Author) |
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ISBN: 3837648974 ISBN-13: 9783837648973 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 300 pages |
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Publisher Description: Diabetes is regarded as one of the most challenging global health issues of the twenty-first 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. |