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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2003.
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Collection: | Studies in social medicine.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |