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Spontaneity and serendipity: Space and time in the lives of people with diabetes (2019)
Journal Article
Lucherini, M. (2020). Spontaneity and serendipity: Space and time in the lives of people with diabetes. Social Science and Medicine, 245, Article ARTN 112723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112723

This article considers the relevance of non-representational theory to understanding the lived experience of diabetes. While non-representational theory has gained traction in the social sciences, especially Human Geography, its usefulness in extendi... Read More about Spontaneity and serendipity: Space and time in the lives of people with diabetes.

Representing diabetes: ‘Brightside’ and ‘chaos’ in autobiography (2019)
Journal Article
Lucherini. (2019). Representing diabetes: ‘Brightside’ and ‘chaos’ in autobiography. Emotion, Space and Society, 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.02.004

This paper examines six autobiographical sources written by people with type 1 diabetes. In seeking to improve the understanding of diabetic lifeworlds; some of the autobiographies present heroic stories of ‘overcoming’ diabetes while others present... Read More about Representing diabetes: ‘Brightside’ and ‘chaos’ in autobiography.

Performing Diabetes: Surveillance and Self-Management (2016)
Journal Article
Lucherini. (2016). Performing Diabetes: Surveillance and Self-Management. Surveillance & Society, https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v14i2.5996

Sustaining the diabetic body involves visible practices of expert self-management: injecting insulin and testing blood sugar levels. Drawing form qualitative interviews I consider how people with diabetes manage the visibility of these practices rela... Read More about Performing Diabetes: Surveillance and Self-Management.

In Situ Measurement of Magnetization Relaxation of Internalized Nanoparticles in Live Cells. (2015)
Journal Article
Soukup, D., Moise, S., Céspedes, E., Dobson, J., & Telling, N. D. (2015). In Situ Measurement of Magnetization Relaxation of Internalized Nanoparticles in Live Cells. ACS nano, 9(1), 231-240. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn503888j

Magnetization relaxation mechanisms strongly influence how magnetic nanoparticles respond to high-frequency fields in applications such as magnetic hyperthermia. The dominant mechanism depends on the mobility of the particles, which will be affected... Read More about In Situ Measurement of Magnetization Relaxation of Internalized Nanoparticles in Live Cells..