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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Studies in social medicine.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.