Bittersweet
Feudtner, John Christopher.
Bittersweet diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness / [electronic resource] : Chris Feudtner. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xxii, 290 p. : ill. - Studies in social medicine . - Studies in social medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Joslin Diabetes Center.
Diabetes--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
RA645.D5 / F485 2003eb
616.4/62/009
Bittersweet diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness / [electronic resource] : Chris Feudtner. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xxii, 290 p. : ill. - Studies in social medicine . - Studies in social medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Joslin Diabetes Center.
Diabetes--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
RA645.D5 / F485 2003eb
616.4/62/009