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Fatal thirst [electronic resource] : diabetes in Britain until insulin / by Elizabeth Lane Furdell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of science and medicine library ; v. 9.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: xii, 194 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.196/46200941 22
LOC classification:
  • RC660 .F87 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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