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Diabetes self-monitoring devices and transformations in “patient work”

With traditional capillary blood glucose readers, diabetes patients puncture a fingertip and measure the level of glucose in the blood sample. More recently, continuous blood glucose measuring devices have become available, which not only show current blood sugar levels, but also upward and downward...

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Hauptverfasser:	Mathieu-Fritz, Alexandre, Guillot, Caroline, Crisp, John
Format:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:	Français
Veröffentlicht:	2017
Schlagworte:	chronic illness cognitive artefact diabetes experimental attitude illness experience patient work reflexive technology reflexivity self-monitoring temporality
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spelling	cairn-RAC_037_kRACRevue d'anthropologie des connaissances https://shs.cairn.info/revue-anthropologie-des-connaissances-2017-4-page-k?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rac.037.k Diabetes self-monitoring devices and transformations in “patient work” Mathieu-Fritz, AlexandreGuillot, CarolineCrisp, John2017 chronic illnesscognitive artefactdiabetesexperimental attitudeillness experiencepatient workreflexive technologyreflexivityself-monitoringtemporalityfre Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances \| 114 \| 4 \| 2017-11-30 \| p. k-ao RAC_03726 With traditional capillary blood glucose readers, diabetes patients puncture a fingertip and measure the level of glucose in the blood sample. More recently, continuous blood glucose measuring devices have become available, which not only show current blood sugar levels, but also upward and downward trends and changes over the past few hours. The aim of our analysis is to describe the specific effects of the use of these diabetes self-monitoring systems on “patient work” and on the illness experience. We will show how their use is accompanied by different forms of personal experiment and learning and reconfigures “patient work” by partially releasing patients from certain social, material, spatial, corporeal and cognitive constraints. Because these systems produce and represent data on blood sugar levels over different timeframes, patients can develop new ways of interpreting their symptoms and different ways of anticipating short-term blood glucose fluctuations. Other forms of reflexivity and self-knowledge thus emerge, bringing changes in the temporality of the day-to-day illness experience, and potentially leading to adjustments in treatment and a reduction in some of the anxieties associated with the disorder.Los diabéticos, con la ayuda de un lector de glucemia capilar, extraen un gota de sangre picando la extremidad de un dedo y realizan una medición puntual de su índice de glucemia que les permite conocer la tasa de azúcar en la sangre en un momento preciso. Mas recientemente los lectores continuos de glucemia tienen la particularidad de presentar, a parte del valor puntual de glucemia, la tendencia al aumento o disminución de dicho índice en las últimas horas. El objetivo de nuestro análisis es de dar cuenta de los efectos específicos del uso de estos equipos de auto-monitoreo del diabetes sobre el «trabajo del paciente» y su experiencia de la enfermedad. Mostraremos como el uso de dichos aparatos se acompañan de diversas formas de experimentación personal y de aprendizaje que acompañan y reconfiguran el trabajo del paciente, deshaciendo en parte los límites sociales, materiales, espaciales, corporales y cognoscitivos. Ya que estos dispositivos permiten producir y representar diversas temporalidades de los datos de la glucemia, los pacientes pueden desarrollar nuevas modalidades de interpretación de los síntomas y anticipar de manera diferente la evolución a corto plazo de su glucemia. Otras formas de reflexividad y de conocimiento de si emergen a la favor de las transformaciones de la temporalidad de la experiencia cotidiana de la enfermedad y pueden conducir a adaptaciones del tratamiento y de la reducción de ciertos temores asociados a la patología.Cairn free access
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spellingShingle	chronic illness cognitive artefact diabetes experimental attitude illness experience patient work reflexive technology reflexivity self-monitoring temporality Mathieu-Fritz, Alexandre Guillot, Caroline Crisp, John Diabetes self-monitoring devices and transformations in “patient work”
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description	With traditional capillary blood glucose readers, diabetes patients puncture a fingertip and measure the level of glucose in the blood sample. More recently, continuous blood glucose measuring devices have become available, which not only show current blood sugar levels, but also upward and downward trends and changes over the past few hours. The aim of our analysis is to describe the specific effects of the use of these diabetes self-monitoring systems on “patient work” and on the illness experience. We will show how their use is accompanied by different forms of personal experiment and learning and reconfigures “patient work” by partially releasing patients from certain social, material, spatial, corporeal and cognitive constraints. Because these systems produce and represent data on blood sugar levels over different timeframes, patients can develop new ways of interpreting their symptoms and different ways of anticipating short-term blood glucose fluctuations. Other forms of reflexivity and self-knowledge thus emerge, bringing changes in the temporality of the day-to-day illness experience, and potentially leading to adjustments in treatment and a reduction in some of the anxieties associated with the disorder.
author	Mathieu-Fritz, Alexandre Guillot, Caroline Crisp, John
author_facet	Mathieu-Fritz, Alexandre Guillot, Caroline Crisp, John
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title	Diabetes self-monitoring devices and transformations in “patient work”
title_short	Diabetes self-monitoring devices and transformations in “patient work”
title_full	Diabetes self-monitoring devices and transformations in “patient work”
title_fullStr	Diabetes self-monitoring devices and transformations in “patient work”
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