Diabetes
Subtitle: the biography
By: Robert Tattersall.
Series: Biographies of disease; Biographies of disease (Oxford, England)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780199541362
Subjects: Diabetes -- History; Diabetes Mellitus -- history; History, Modern 1601-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The pissing evil : defining the disease; title: Unravelling the role of the pancreas; title: Insulin : a force of magical activity; title: The dark ages; title: Treating long-term complications; title: Adult-onset diabetes and tablets at last; title: At the laboratory bench; title: The pharmaceutical era; title: Diabetes becomes epidemic.