Controlling the Diabetic Body? Managing Chronic Illness with Wearable Technology

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

Autoethnography · Control (management · Diabetes mellitus · Health care · Political science · Sociology · Type 2 diabetes · Wearable computer · Computer Science · Diabetes and associated disorders · Diabetes Management and Education · Diabetes Management and Research · Endocrinology · Medicine · Nursing

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