[ FreeCourseWeb ] Making Diabetes - The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda

Making Diabetes: The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda



English | ISBN: 3837648974 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 1078 KB
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 nstrates 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.

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