One click away: learning to live with type 1 diabetes via Facebook

This article is part of the series: Chronic living

Karen, who has lived with type 1 diabetes for three years, explains how she is only just starting to properly manage her daily self-care, and how it interrupts her various daily routines. “There are so many unpredictable issues surrounding self-management, and learning never stops”, she says, while she accentuates all her doubts about self-care: “What will happen, …

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February 25, 2021

Chronic living: ethnographic explorations of daily lives swayed by (multiple) medical conditions

By Ayo Wahlberg, Jieun Lee, Anna Mann, Arseli Dokumaci, Natasja Kingod, Marie Kofod Svensson and Laura Louise Heinsen

This article is part of the series: Chronic living

On the 12^th of January 2020, the World Health Organization confirmed that the “mystery virus” which, according to reports from China, had infected some 50 people in the city of Wuhan, was not SARS following the genetic sequencing of a “novel coronavirus”. Within two weeks, Wuhan’s hospitals were overwhelmed, and the city was sent into lockdown as health authorities …

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One click away: learning to live with type 1 diabetes via Facebook

Chronic living: ethnographic explorations of daily lives swayed by (multiple) medical conditions