Project description
Ethnographic studies on diabetes care in India
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded LIDIA project studies relational care among diabetes patients from the urban poor and the middle classes in Delhi, India. The project will contribute to ethnographic studies, providing in-depth knowledge on diabetes and care in an underexplored case country with a high incidence of the illness. The study of familial care will break from earlier research on diabetes that focused on self-care promoted by biomedical knowledge and institutions. By drawing attention to diabetes patients and their families’ social lives, the project will improve patients’ overall condition and medical treatment with a focus on diabetes care in everyday families’ social lives beyond clinical settings.
Objective
The project examines relational care among diabetes patients from two social classes in Delhi: urban poor and the middle class. It will contribute to the existing ethnographic studies on diabetes and care by, first, providing an in-depth account of diabetes care in India, an underexplored case-country with a high incidence of the illness. Secondly, by providing a close ethnographic reading familial care, the study will break from earlier research on diabetes that largely focuses on self-care propagated by biomedical knowledge and institutions. Thirdly, the study will make theoretical contributions by developing a conceptual framework on relational care. It will do so by drawing on and bridging anthropological approaches that render care and and familial relatedness as forms of ongoing and habituated practices of the everyday, situated socioeconomically.
The overall action will further researcher’s academic career, and create a platform of knowledge exchange between the researcher and the hosting Institution, Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA). Through the implementation of research project, the action will also enhance researcher’s academic skills and facilitate her academic career. The project will enable researcher to enhance academic skills through a close work with the principal supervisor Ian Harper and through an active participation at the EdCMA and relevant research environment. The researcher’s project will create added value to the department’s organisation, research environment and networking activities. By focusing on chronic non-communicable illness, it will supplement the already strong EdCMA’s focus on infectious disease and mental health in the Global South. The work will feed directly into I. Harper’s on-going research into the ethics of global health; and the entanglement between health programmes, institutions and everyday life; and the relationships between chronic diseases and infectious disease.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences health sciences health care sciences
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine endocrinology diabetes
You need to log in or register to use this function
We are sorry... an unexpected error occurred during execution.
You need to be authenticated. Your session might have expired.
Thank you for your feedback. You will soon receive an email to confirm the submission. If you have selected to be notified about the reporting status, you will also be contacted when the reporting status will change.
Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
-
H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
MAIN PROGRAMME
See all projects funded under this programme -
H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
See all projects funded under this programme
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
See all projects funded under this funding scheme
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
See all projects funded under this callCoordinator
Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.