| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Bittersweet/ Chris Feudtner. |
| Reminder of title: |
diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness / |
| Author: |
Feudtner, John Christopher. |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
xxii, 290 p. :ill.25 cm. |
| Series: |
Studies in social medicine |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Diabetes - History - 20th century. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=103991An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0807863181 (electronic bk.) |