Furdell, Elizabeth Lane.

Fatal thirst diabetes in Britain until insulin / [electronic resource] : by Elizabeth Lane Furdell. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. - xii, 194 p. - History of science and medicine library, v. 9 1872-0684 ; . - History of science and medicine library ; v. 9. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-190) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





DNLM


Diabetes--History.--Great Britain


Electronic books.

RC660 / .F87 2009

362.196/46200941