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Fatal thirst : diabetes in Britain until insulin /
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 speciali...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Series: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 9. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.