Diabetes

Tattersall, Robert, 1943-

Diabetes the biography / [electronic resource] : Robert Tattersall. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - x, 229 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Biographies of disease. . - Biographies of disease (Oxford, England) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Available electronically via the Internet.

9780199541362 (hardback) 0199541361 (hardback)


Diabetes--History.

Diabetes Mellitus History, Modern 1601-.

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