Author | Feudtner, John Christopher |
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Title | Bittersweet [electronic resource] : diabetes, insulin, and the transformation of illness / Chris Feudtner |
Imprint | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=103991 |
Descript | xxii, 290 p. : ill. 25 cm |
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