Table of Contents: Bittersweet :

Main Author:	Feudtner, John Christopher.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
Series:	Studies in social medicine
Subjects:	Diabetes > History > 20th century. Chronic Disease > psychology. Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 > history. Diabetes Mellitus > complications. Diabetes Mellitus > therapy. History, 20th Century. Insulin > therapeutic use. HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Diabetes. Diabetes. Diabetes mellitus. United States.
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Table of Contents:

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.