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Bittersweet : diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness / Chris Feudtner.
Van Pelt Library RA645.D5 F485 2003
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Holman Biotech Commons RA645.D5 F485 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feudtner, John Christopher.
- Series:
- Studies in social medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Joslin Diabetes Center.
- Diabetes--History--20th century.
- Diabetes.
- Chronic Disease--psychology.
- History.
- United States.
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1--history.
- Diabetes Complications.
- Diabetes Mellitus--therapy.
- History, 20th Century.
- Insulin--therapeutic use.
- Medical Subjects:
- Chronic Disease--psychology.
- United States.
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1--history.
- Diabetes Complications.
- Diabetes Mellitus--therapy.
- History, 20th Century.
- Insulin--therapeutic use.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In this first book-length study of the history of diabetes in the 20th-century U.S., Feudtner draws on the medical archives and letters exchanged between patients or their family members and the staff of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston to explore how medical intervention and cultural change have affected diabetics' lives. Transmuted by medical intervention from its natural course to one that is uncharted, diabetes, according to Feudtner, demonstrates the complex ironies of medical progress.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-273) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances C. Thielbar Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0807827916
- OCLC:
- 50769319
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