Fatal thirst diabetes in Britain until insulin /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Series: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 9. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the "biography" of a disease and its sufferers
- The early history of diabetes from classical times to the Renaissance : diagnoses and descriptions
- Renaissance diabetics and their doctors : changing treatments for revolutionary times
- Early modern medicine in print and diabetes : published advice and imagery
- Diabetes and seventeenth-century medical controversy
- Reconstructing diabetic life in early modern England
- Diabetic specialists and their patients in the long nineteenth century : competition for a cure
- After insulin : the lingering effects of an incurable disease.