Description du projet
Études ethnographiques des soins aux personnes diabétiques en Inde
Le projet LIDIA, financé par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, étudie les soins relationnels des patients diabétiques issus des classes pauvres et moyennes de Delhi, en Inde. Le projet contribuera à des études ethnographiques, apportant des connaissances approfondies sur le diabète et les soins dans un pays sous-exploré où l’incidence de la maladie est élevée. L’étude des soins familiaux se démarquera des recherches antérieures sur le diabète qui se concentraient sur les soins auto-administrés promus par les connaissances et les institutions biomédicales. En attirant l’attention sur la vie sociale des patients diabétiques et de leurs familles, le projet améliorera l’état général des patients et leur traitement médical avec un accent plus particulier sur les soins liés au diabète dans la vie sociale des familles au quotidien, au-delà des cadres cliniques.
Objectif
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.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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