| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 290 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in social medicine
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Studies in social medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index. |
| Contents |
Irony in an era of medical marvels : diabetes history as a study of health and hope -- A disease in motion : the cycles of diabetic transmutation -- Illness unfolding : the transformed experience of diabetic patients -- Getting the point : the daily work of diabetes -- The want of control : ideas and ideals in the management of diabetes -- Pregnant longings : mounting medical intensity in the pursuit of motherhood -- Predicaments of dangerous safety : identity, responsibility, and life with a chronic illness -- Medicine and the marshaling of hope : confronting the increasingly complicated choices of incomplete control. |
| Summary |
One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921. But the author demonstrates that the transformation of the disease from fatal condition into a chronic illness is tinged with irony and one which illuminates the human consequences of medical intervention. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Joslin Diabetes Center.
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Joslin Diabetes Center. |
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Diabetes -- History -- 20th century.
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Diabetes. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Chronic Disease -- psychology. |
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 -- history. |
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Diabetes Complications. |
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Diabetes Mellitus -- therapy. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Insulin -- therapeutic use. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feudtner, John Christopher. Bittersweet. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 0807827916 (DLC) 2002151271 (OCoLC)50769319 |
| ISBN |
0807863181 (electronic book) |
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9780807863183 (electronic book) |
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9780807827918 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807827916 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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