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Bittersweet : diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness Cover Image Book

Bittersweet : diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness / Chris Feudtner.

Feudtner, John Christopher. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0807827916
  • Physical Description: xxii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Target Audience Note:
1640L Lexile

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