Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Notes -- Looking Back as a Means to Look Forward -- A Currebt View of Diabetes Mellitus -- Part I. Disease and Medicine Today -- 1. Irony in an Era of Medical Marvels: Diabetes History as a Study of Health and Hope -- Diabetes and the Technology Ethos -- Dr. Joslin's Records and Letters -- The Paradigm of Disease Transmutation -- The Phenomenon of Transformed Illness -- Overview -- Notes -- Part II. The Bittersweet Transformation of Diabetes -- 2. A Disease in Motion: The Cycles of Diabetic Transmutation -- Diabetes and the Transmutation of Disease -- From Transmuted Disease to Transformed Experience -- Diabetes at the Turn of the Century -- The Cycles of Rigorous Diet -- Breaking the Cycle of Insulin Therapy -- Managing New Regimes -- New Expectations and Social Change -- The Human Consequences of Intervened Disease -- Notes -- 3. Illness Unfolding: The Transformed Experience of Diabetic Patients -- The Language of Living with Diabetes -- Learning the Language of Diabetic Life -- The Punctuating of Crises and Transitions -- The Grammar of Routine -- "Complications" and the Denouement of Diabetic Life -- Narrations and Creating Meaning in Life -- Notes -- 4. Getting the Point: The Daily Work of Diabetes -- Daily Life and work in the Diabetic World -- Monitoring Work -- Diet Work -- Insulin Work -- Symptom Work -- Identity Work -- "Work Shortens the Day, but Lengthens the Life" -- Notes -- 5. The Want of Control: Ideas and Ideals in the Management of Diabetes -- Ideal Control before Insulin -- Ideal Control Intensified -- Insulin and Control "Among the Erstwhile Dead" -- Striving for Control of Life and Death -- The Want of Control -- Notes -- 6. Pregnant Longings: Mounting Medical Intensity in the Pursuit of Motherhood -- Migrating Focus of Clinical Control -- Mounting Intensity of Care.

Expanding Horizon of Medical Management -- Reconfiguring Relationships and Responsibilities -- Life after Pregnancy -- Cultural Logic, Social Constraints, and Medical Innovation -- Notes -- 7. Predicaments of Dangerous Safety: Identity, Responsibility, and Life with a Chronic Illness -- The Arrangement of Responsibility before Insulin -- The Arrangement of Responsibility after Insulin -- Establishing One's Self in a Diabetic World -- Tracy Pike Villars -- John Hansen -- Maturing in the Diabetic World -- Tracy -- John -- Coping with Therapeutic "Failure" -- Tracy -- John -- Responsibilities and the Sequela of "Success" -- Elliott P. Joslin, M.D. -- Each Day as a sort of Bonus -- Notes -- Part III. Illness and People Care Tomorrow -- 8. Medcine and the Marshaling of Hope: Confronting the Increasingly Complicated Choices of Incomplete Control -- Reckoning with Imperfect Miracles -- A Life of Managed Hope and Sorrow -- History, Medicine, and Forms of Imagination -- The Constant Presence of the Past -- Inextinguishable Tensions -- Confronting the Choices of Incomplete Control -- Marshaling Hope -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A-B -- C-D -- E-H -- I -- J -- K-M -- N -- O-P -- R -- S -- T-V -- W-Z.