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The Para-Communicable: Living Between Infectious and Non-Communicable Conditions (2021)

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Imagine that you felt a little dizzy in the heat and collapsed while making lunch, Salimata told me. Imagine that you wake up in a hospital and feel terrible pain in your leg – but when you look down to where it hurts the most, all you see is an empty space. That was how Salimata described the first time that she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. She said it took months to begin absorbing the reality that her leg had been lost due to a chronic condition that no-one had ever suspected she had. Years later, she still

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Authors & Contributors
Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui
Vaughan, Megan
LaBonte, Michelle Lynne
Mika, Marissa Anne
Sanuade, Olutobi
Konerman-Sease, Jaime
Concepts
Chronic diseases
Diabetes
Epidemiological transition (public health)
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Non-communicable diseases
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Great Britain
Southern Africa
Ghana
United States
Massachusetts (U.S.)
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
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