Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes - Softcover

Hirsch, James S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 061891899X ISBN 13: 9780618918997

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2007

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: November 2007 Pages: 336 Publisher: Mariner Books candid A plane suddenly went. And Moving account of one of America's Alps and ocean divide-growing Health Issues the If you or SOMEONE you love has Diabetes. You are alone-more not than twenty million Americans now live with the disease. In Cheating Destiny. the best-selling author James S. Hirsch offers an incisive. sometimes surprising portrait of diabetes in America. Hirsch is intimately familiar with the disease: he has lived with type 1 diabetes for three decades. His other. Irl. also a diabetic. is one of the country's leading diabetologists. Most poignantly. his son Garrett was diagnosed at age three. Hirsch draws on his unique expertise to provide an engaging blend of reportage. memoir. history. and advocacy. He offers revealing views of life with diabetes: the urge toward secrecy that many diabet...

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Review:

"Hirsch has written the book that people who care about diabetes have been waiting for . . . Hirsch persuasively illustrates an epidemic that is at odds with modern society at almost every level." The Washington Post

"Hirsch includes material about himself, his brother, and his son to make his searing points." The Seattle Times

About the Author:

James S. Hirsch, a former reporter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, is the author of Cheating Destiny, the bestseller Hurricane: The Miracle Journey of Rubin Carter, Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy, and Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam. He is also a principal of Close Concerns, a consultancy and publishing company that specializes in diabetes. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Sheryl, and their children, Amanda and Garrett.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 061891899X
• ISBN 13: 9780618918997
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336