Essays about: "Jesse Vargas"

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  1. 1. Sweet Blood Surveillance: An ethnographic approach to diabetes management through the Diabetes Care Network

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Jesse Vargas; [2020]
    Keywords : Diabetes Care Network DCN ; Type 1 Diabetes; Sociotechnical System; Ethnography; Technology and Engineering; Medicine and Health Sciences; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Is the management of Type 1 Diabetes best left to the medical sciences, or do the social sciences have a stake as well? In ‘Sweet Blood Surveillance,’ I push back against the perceived domination of scientific objectivity to make space for the subjective experience of diabetes in the maintenance of glucose levels through a collaboration with medical technical objects. To accomplish my task, I create an analytical tool, the Diabetes Care Network, in order to conceptualize the sociotechnical system of postmodern diabetes care, focusing on the social group of the User. READ MORE