A few weeks ago, Amy Moran-Thomas and 20 students in her class 21A.311 (The Social Lives of Medical Objects) were gathered around a glucose meter, a jar of test strips, and various spare medical parts in the MIT Museum seminar room, talking about how to make them work better. The class had just heard a presentation from the president of the Belize Diabetes Association in Dangriga, Norma Flores, a ...