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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

1 online resource (xii, 194 p.)

ISBN 9004172505 (hardback : alk. paper)

ISBN 9789004172500 (hardback : alk. paper)

History of science and medicine library, ISSN 1872-0684 ; v. 9

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-190) and index

Introduction : the "biography" of a disease and its sufferers -- The early history of diabetes from classical times to the Renaissance : diagnoses and descriptions -- Renaissance diabetics and their doctors : changing treatments for revolutionary times -- Early modern medicine in print and diabetes : published advice and imagery -- Diabetes and seventeenth-century medical controversy -- Reconstructing diabetic life in early modern England -- Diabetic specialists and their patients in the long nineteenth century : competition for a cure -- After insulin : the lingering effects of an incurable disease.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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