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Bittersweet : diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness /

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 interventi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feudtner, John Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
Colección:Studies in social medicine.
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