| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 194 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
History of science and medicine library,
1872-0684 ;
v. 9
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History of science and medicine library ; v. 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-190) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the "biography" of a disease and its sufferers -- The early history of diabetes from classical times to the Renaissance : diagnoses and descriptions -- Renaissance diabetics and their doctors : changing treatments for revolutionary times -- Early modern medicine in print and diabetes : published advice and imagery -- Diabetes and seventeenth-century medical controversy -- Reconstructing diabetic life in early modern England -- Diabetic specialists and their patients in the long nineteenth century : competition for a cure -- After insulin : the lingering effects of an incurable disease. |
| Summary |
Although medieval doctors knew of the disorder called diabetes, the disease they treated was rare and largely confined to young sufferers. This title examines the history of diabetes in Britain focusing on medieval treatments, Renaissance-era diabetology, and the centuries-long debate among specialists over the site and cure of the disease. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Diabetes -- Great Britain -- History.
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Diabetes. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Diabetes Mellitus -- history. |
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Insulin -- history. |
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United Kingdom. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Furdell, Elizabeth Lane. Fatal thirst. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004172500 (DLC) 2008038914 (OCoLC)245509951 |
| ISBN |
9789047425977 (electronic book) |
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9047425979 (electronic book) |
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9789004172500 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004172505 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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128240072X |
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9781282400726 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004172500.i-195 |
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