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This
website presents audio recordings of
the life-stories of 50 people diagnosed
with diabetes between 1927 and 1997.
They talk with passion and humour about
their daily lives and provide a unique
oral history of what it was like to
have diabetes during the twentieth century.
Most agreed to talk about their experiences,
because they felt they’d benefited
from past research and so were glad
to contribute to future research. Their
stories are offered as a resource for
historians, healthcare professionals,
people with diabetes, and all those
interested in the ways people remember
and make sense of their lives. This
resource is available free, but by using
this site you are agreeing to our terms
of use.
We provide full unedited recordings,
short audio samples, written summaries,
full transcripts, and ways of locating
sections of the interviews that cover
particular subjects.
The website is based at the Oxford Centre
for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
and was funded by the Wellcome Trust.
It has won Oxford University's 'IT in Teaching and Learning Award' and been chosen by the Wellcome Trust as a 'Research Highlight' |
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| Getting
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Finding
your way around the Diabetes-Stories website
is accomplished by clicking on the words Interviews
or Research at the top of the page and clicking
on options in the drop-down menus provided.
If there is no menu then click here.
If at any stage you get lost, then selecting
Home will bring you
back here . A Help
option is also available at the top of each
page and should be able to answer any queries
you have.
To explore a particular subject or to listen
to an interview, select Interviews
at the top of the page. Information about
each interviewee, written summaries and full
transcripts are available for each interview.To
learn how to listen to the audio recordings,
click here.
If you wish to examine the interview demographics
or the full transcripts in greater detail,
a comprehensive Research
tool is available via the menu.
If you have a couple of hours to spare, then
we recommend reading the descriptions of all
50 interviewees and listening to the two short
audio samples from each interview. (Go to
Interviews on the menu, select View Individuals.
A new page will load: then just click at the
top of a table column to select the order
in which you would like to view them.)
If you have only a minute to spare, then click
on one of the Listen icons by the selected
interview for a short audio sample.
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