Bittersweet

by Feudtner, John Christopher.
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Series: Studies in social medicine Published by : University of North Carolina Press, (Chapel Hill :) Physical details: xxii, 290 p. : ill. Year: 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index.

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.

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