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

Moran-Thomas, Amy (Author)

UCL Press
Pages: 233-251
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv14t4769.14

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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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