Bittersweet [electronic resource] : diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness / Chris Feudtner.
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TextSeries: Studies in social medicinePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xxii, 290 p. : ill. 25 cmISBN: - 0807863181 (electronic bk.)
- Diabetes -- History -- 20th century
- Joslin Diabetes Center
- Chronic Disease -- psychology -- United States
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type I -- history -- United States
- Diabetes Mellitus -- complications -- United States
- Diabetes Mellitus -- therapy -- United States
- History of Medicine, 20th Cent. -- United States
- Insulin -- therapeutic use -- United States
- 616.4/62/009 22
- RA645.D5 F485 2003eb
- 2003 H-106
- WK 810
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index.
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.
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