عنوان

Bittersweet :

شابک

0807827916 (cloth : alk. paper)

شابک

9780807827918 (cloth : alk. paper)

شماره

b523782

عنوان اصلي

Bittersweet :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Chris Feudtner.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Chapel Hill :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of North Carolina Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2003.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xxii, 290 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

25 cm.

عنوان فروست

Studies in social medicine

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index.

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921. The drug produced astonishing results, rescuing children and adults from the deadly grip of diabetes. But as Chris Feudtner demonstrates, the subsequent transformation of the disease from a fatal condition into a chronic illness is a story of success tinged with irony, a revealing saga that illuminates the complex human consequences of medical intervention." "Bittersweet chronicles this history of diabetes through the compelling perspectives of people who lived with this disease. Drawing on a remarkable body of letters exchanged between patients or their parents and Elliot P. Joslin and the staff of physicians at his famed Boston clinic, Feudtner examines the experience of living with diabetes across the twentieth century, highlighting changes in treatment and their profound effects on patients' lives. Although focused on juvenile-onset, or Type 1, diabetes, the themes explored in Bittersweet have implications for our understanding of adult-onset, or Type 2, diabetes, as well as a host of other diseases that are being transformed by drugs or medical devices from acute to chronic conditions. Indeed, the tale of diabetes in the post-insulin era provides an ideal opportunity for exploring the larger questions of how medicine changes our lives."--Jacket.

موضوع مستند نشده

Joslin Diabetes Center.

موضوع مستند نشده

Diabetes-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Chronic Disease-- psychology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Diabetes Complications.

موضوع مستند نشده

Diabetes Mellitus-- therapy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1-- history.

موضوع مستند نشده

History, 20th Century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Insulin-- therapeutic use.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

2

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Feudtner, John Christopher.

تاريخ عمليات

20140220094854.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y