AcknowledgementsList of contributors
Introduction
PART I SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL WORLDS & ACTIVISM
Diabetes Twitter: A Communal Retort to Capitalism
What's in a Name? The Diabetes Civil War
The #insulin4all Movement: A Few Committed Individuals Isn't Enough
One or many voices: narratives from #Insulin4all
PART II FILM, TELEVISION, VISUAL ART, AND PERFORMANCE
Laughing to Keep from Dying: Black Americans with Diabetes in Sitcoms and Comedies
"Diabetes, Yuck!": Comedy, Disability, and The Dangers of Parody in Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
Diabetic Data Art: Numbers Beyond Control
Panic Rooms: Suspense In Type 1 Diabetes
My Tale Told by a Woman: Lucille and The Dramaturgy of Diabetes
PART III STARING, CODING, AND READING THE DIABETIC BODY
Waking Up Metaphors of Diabetes
Please Don't Pet: Reflections on Life with My Diabetes Alert Dog
How to Wear (and Hide) Your Insulin Pump: Managing Device Connectedness with Gendered Bodies Online
PART IV RE-SCRIPTING AND RESISTING SPOILED IDENTITIES
Desiring Decay: The Power of Unwellness and the Dynamics of Cure in Lina Meruane's Fruta podrida (2007)
The Blame and Shame Game: Transforming Medical and Social Interactions
The Monstering of Diabetes: The Failure of Fear and Sarcasm in Public Health PSAs
Hurt, Comfort and Intimacy: Representations of Diabetes in Fan Fiction
PART V DISABILITY IDENTITY, CRIP FUTURES AND LIBERATION
Self-Exceptionism and its Counternarrative: An Autonetnography of Shifting Diabetes Identity
"Especially Made for Them": Summer Camps for Diabetic Children
Troubling Cure and Cripping Futurity: Queering Narratives of Diabetes
Diabetes Advocacy: Many Voices, One Message
Afterward
Index.