Les dispositifs d’autosurveillance du diabète et les transformations du « travail du patient »
Using the self-monitoring capillary blood glucose device, people with diabetes take a drop of blood by pricking the tip of one of their fingers and perform a one-off measurement of their blood glucose level which allows them to know the level of sugar in their blood at a specific time. More recently...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rac/1457 |
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| Summary: | Using the self-monitoring capillary blood glucose device, people with diabetes take a drop of blood by pricking the tip of one of their fingers and perform a one-off measurement of their blood glucose level which allows them to know the level of sugar in their blood at a specific time. More recently, continuous glucose monitoring device have, in addition to the one-time value of blood glucose, their tendency to increase or decrease and their evolution during the last hours. The objective of our analysis is to account for the specific effects of using these diabetes self-monitoring devices on “patient work” and its experience of the disease. We will show how their uses are accompanied by various forms of personal experimentation and learning and reconfigure the “work of the patient”, releasing it in part from certain social, material, spatial, corporeal and cognitive constraints. Because these devices produce and represent blood glucose data at various times, patients can develop new ways of interpreting their symptoms and anticipate the short-term evolution of their blood glucose levels differently. Other forms of reflexivity and self-knowledge emerge as a result of transformations in the temporality of the daily experience of the disease and may lead to adaptations of treatment and to the reduction of certain fears associated with pathology. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-5393 |