Bittersweet diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness /

Main Author: Feudtner, John Christopher.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Series:Studies in social medicine
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10202635
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505 0 |a 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. 
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