Descrizione del progetto
Studi etnografici sulla cura del diabete in India
Il progetto LIDIA, finanziato dalle azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, studia la cura relazionale tra i pazienti diabetici delle classi povere e medie di Delhi, in India. Il progetto contribuirà agli studi etnografici, fornendo una conoscenza approfondita del diabete e delle relative cure in un paese poco esplorato in termini di casistica, caratterizzato da un’alta incidenza della malattia. Lo studio dell’assistenza familiare si distaccherà dalle precedenti ricerche sul diabete che si concentravano sull’autocura promossa dalle conoscenze biomediche e dalle istituzioni. Attirando l’attenzione sui pazienti affetti da diabete e sulla vita sociale delle loro famiglie, il progetto migliorerà le condizioni generali dei pazienti e le cure mediche, concentrandosi sul trattamento del diabete nell’ambito della vita sociale quotidiana delle famiglie, fuori dagli ambienti clinici.
Obiettivo
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)Coordinatore
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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