Bittersweet : diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness / / Chris Feudtner.
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| Superior document: | Studies in social medicine |
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in social medicine.
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 290 p. :; ill. |
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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.