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Day in the life

To end ‘superbetic’, I felt like I should have outlined what I was planning to do on the practice side of things now that the context side of things was coming to an end. Though I didn’t have it clear in my mind at exactly what I would be doing, I knew the sort ofContinue reading “Day in the life”

Interview with Raquel

Your name, your occupation, and for how long you’ve been a diabetic? ‘Raquel, Marketing / social media manager T1d for 19 years.’ When were you told you had diabetes and what was that experience like? ‘I was 5 years old. I do not remeber much except being told in the hospital that i would needContinue reading “Interview with Raquel”

Article reference: ‘Miscoding, misclassification and misdiagnosis of diabetes in primary care

‘misdiagnosis can have psychological and financial implications,’ p.181 ‘some may not have diabetes; others are misclassified and may not be managed according to correct guidance;’ p.186.

Article Reference: ‘The obliteration of life: depersonalization and disembodiment in the terabyte era’

‘On the one hand, life in general and human life in particular are literally “obliterated”: dissolved into streams of letters and symbols’ p.70. ‘Living beings are emptied as it were, as the “flesh of life” is digitalized.’ ‘Biology is not destiny, but changeable, open to optimization: a constructive project, fueled by technoscientific promises.’ P.85. whileContinue reading “Article Reference: ‘The obliteration of life: depersonalization and disembodiment in the terabyte era’”

Article reference: ‘Marx and the Machine’

‘Marx argued that in the most significant complex of technical changes of his time, the coming of large scale mechanised production, social relations molded technology, rather than vice versa’ p.473 “the historic mode of production, i.e. the form of society, is determined by the development of the productive forces, i.e. the development technology.” P.475. ”Continue reading “Article reference: ‘Marx and the Machine’”

Article Reference: ‘The Ends of the Body as Pedagogic Possibility’ by Tanya Titchkosky

Tanya Titchkosky (2012) The Ends of the Body as PedagogicPossibility, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 34:3-4, 82-93, DOI:10.1080/10714413.2012.686851 ‘Disability-exclusion is normalized through an array of cultural processes thatmake ‘‘disability’’ represent limit without possibility’ P.82

The influence of social stigma on diabetes self management amongst Maltese individuals with diabetes’

Buttigieg, N., Ersser, S. & Cowdell, F., 2017. The influence of social stigma on diabetes self-management amongst Maltese individuals with diabetes. The European Journal of Public Health, 27(suppl3), pp.30–30. P.30 ‘In fact, the burden of stigma of a particular disease, is sometimes noted to be far greater than that caused by the disease itself.’ ‘soughtContinue reading “The influence of social stigma on diabetes self management amongst Maltese individuals with diabetes’”

Article Reference:’Diabetes stigma and its association with diabetes outcomes: a cross-sectional study of adults with type 1 diabetes’ by SJPD

P.855. ‘Stigma entails adverse social judgements about enduring features of identity’ = Definition of stigma p.855. ‘While the emotional and physical aspects of diabetes are well described, [3], the social aspects of diabetes remain under-researched.’ p.856. ‘A recent narrative review found that people with type 1 diabetes reported stigma by association with type 2 diabetes,Continue reading “Article Reference:’Diabetes stigma and its association with diabetes outcomes: a cross-sectional study of adults with type 1 diabetes’ by SJPD”

Book Reference: ‘Posthuman’ by Rosi Braidotti

Rosi Braidotti 2013 Polity Press Cambridge p.40. ‘There is a posthuman agreement that contemporary science and biotechnologies affect the very fibre and structure of the living and have altered dramatically our understanding of what counts as the basic frame of reference for the human today.’ p.90. ‘We can therefore safely start from the assumption thatContinue reading “Book Reference: ‘Posthuman’ by Rosi Braidotti”

Article Reference: ‘Marketing the Prosthesis: Supercrip and Superhuman Narratives in Contemporary Cultural Representations’ by Chia Wei Fahn

Received: 24 February 2020; Accepted: 7 July 2020; Published: 10 July 2020 file:///Users/emily/Downloads/philosophies-05-00011.pdf Accessed: 19/01/2021 © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open accessarticle distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ‘With all these tools at our disposal, why is it thatContinue reading “Article Reference: ‘Marketing the Prosthesis: Supercrip and Superhuman Narratives in Contemporary Cultural Representations’ by Chia Wei Fahn”