Fatal thirst diabetes in Britain until insulin /

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1. Verfasser: Furdell, Elizabeth Lane
Körperschaft: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Schriftenreihe:History of science and medicine library ; v. 9.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.