Cheating destiny living with diabetes, America's biggest epidemic
We are a diabetic nation: one in three Americans born in this century will become diabetic. Journalist Hirsch's blend of history, reportage, advocacy, and memoir will speak for, and to, the 20 million Americans who live with this disease. This book offers revealing views of the diabetic subcult...
| Main Author: | Hirsch, James S. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Diabetic utopia
- insulin's poster girl
- The burden of control
- The diabetes queen
- Rewarding failure, punishing excellence
- You have to be brave, or else it hurts
- New lows
- Dr. Bernstein's solution
- High-tech tradeoffs
- Pushing back the horizon
- The magical beta cell
- The trials of a maverick scientist
- The price of survival
- Survivor tales.