Bittersweet diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness /

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Huvudupphov: Feudtner, John Christopher
Institutionellt upphov: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Utgiven: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Serie:Studies in social medicine.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.