Controlling the Diabetic Body? Managing Chronic Illness with Wearable Technology
Engström, Lisa LU
(2024)
In Medical Anthropology. Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
43(6).
p.522-537
- Abstract
- I explore the experience of managing type 1 diabetes with wearable technology. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic illness which requires continuous maintenance to keep the blood glucose levels within range. Using autoethnography, I investigate both the practices of translating information from technology and from senses, and also from health authorities, into practices. I conclude that the management of type 1 diabetes is informed by an urge to control the body, but this situation can be understood otherwise from a logic of care.
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- author
- Engström, Lisa
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-07-29
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Diabetes, Medicinsk Humaniora, Wearable Devices, Care, Governmentality, Autoethnography, Bodily control, diabetes, insulin pump therapy, logics of care, Sweden, autoethnography, wearable technology
- in
- Medical Anthropology. Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
- volume
- 43
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 522 - 537
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- pmid:39072586
- scopus:85200012247
- ISSN
- 0145-9740
- DOI
- 10.1080/01459740.2024.2384749
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- e2c0f5bf-e83f-40e2-8315-60ce63304bad
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- 2024-07-30 06:23:02
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