Making Diabetes : : The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda / / Arlena Siobhan Liggins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2019 Part 2
• Funder: Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
• VerfasserIn: Liggins, Arlena Siobhan,
• Author: Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Medical Humanities ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. "If you are lacking insulin" - Diabetes Mellitus --; 2. (Un)measured yet (un)seen --; 3. Thinking beyond the evident --; 4. A 'simple' technology and its translations: the glucometer --; 5. Diagnostic detours and a logic of chance --; 6. My numbers and my-Self --; 7. Seek and you shall find: Medical Outreaches --; Concluding Remarks --; References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839448977; 9783110766691; 9783110719567; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704723; 9783110704549; 9783110662771
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839448977?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Arlena Siobhan Liggins.

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.