TY - BOOK AU - Furdell,Elizabeth Lane ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Fatal thirst: diabetes in Britain until insulin T2 - History of science and medicine library, AV - RC660 .F87 2009 U1 - 362.196/46200941 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Diabetes KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aitie/detail.action?docID=468079 ER -