Title
Diabetes : the biography / Robert Tattersall.
ISBN
9780199541362
0199541361
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
x, 229 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
RC660 .T38 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.4/62
Summary
Diabetes is increasing rapidly in the modern world, with changing lifestyles, but it has a long history. Robert Tattersall describes the story of diabetes, from the ancient world, through the hopes generated by insulin, to growing concerns about its rapid rise in the young today.
Note
Diabetes is increasing rapidly in the modern world, with changing lifestyles, but it has a long history. Robert Tattersall describes the story of diabetes, from the ancient world, through the hopes generated by insulin, to growing concerns about its rapid rise in the young today.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Biographies of disease (Oxford, England)
The pissing evil : defining the disease
Unravelling the role of the pancreas
Insulin : a force of magical activity
The dark ages
Treating long-term complications
Adult-onset diabetes and tablets at last
At the laboratory bench
The pharmaceutical era
Diabetes becomes epidemic.
