Fatal Thirst : Diabetes in Britain until Insulin.
Title:
Fatal Thirst : Diabetes in Britain until Insulin.
Author:
Furdell, Elizabeth Lane.
ISBN:
9789047425977
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Series:
History of Science and Medicine Library ; v.No. 9
History of Science and Medicine Library
Contents:
Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The "Biography" of a Disease and Its Sufferers -- Chapter One: The Early History of Diabetes from Classical Times to the Renaissance: Diagnoses and Descriptions -- Chapter Two: Renaissance Diabetics and Their Doctors: Changing Treatments for Revolutionary Times -- Chapter Three: Early Modern Medicine in Print and Diabetes: Published Advice and Imagery -- Chapter Four: Diabetes and Seventeenth-Century Medical Controversy -- Chapter Five: Reconstructing Diabetic Life in Early Modern England -- Chapter Six: Diabetic Specialists and Their Patients in the Long Nineteenth Century: Competition for a Cure -- Chapter Seven: After Insulin: The Lingering Effects of an Incurable Disease -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Using unpublished and published sources, this book examines the history of diabetes in Britain from the perspective of healer and sufferer alike, focusing on medieval treatments, Renaissance-era diabetology, and the centuries-long debate among specialists over the site and cure of the disease.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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