Bittersweet [electronic resource] : diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness / Chris Feudtner.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in social medicinePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xxii, 290 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 616.4/62/009 21
- RA645.D5 F485 2003
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Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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.
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