Diabetes: The Biography (Biographies of Disease) - Hardcover

Tattersall, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199541361 ISBN 13: 9780199541362

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2009

Synopsis

Diabetes is a familiar disease and many perceive it now as almost mundane - an easily manageable condition since the discovery of insulin. In this volume from the Biographies of Disease series, Robert Tattersall traces the history of diabetes from ancient Egypt to the discovery of insulin, he shows how pernicious the condition can be, and gives a detailed account of the efforts to understand and manage it over the centuries, and across the world.

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Review:

A first-rate and much-needed history...It deserves to and will be widely read. (Michael Bliss, Emeritus Professor of History, Toronto, and author of 'The Discovery of Insulin')

Anyone interested in medical discoveries, lay or professional alike, would read it with pleasure. (Peter Watkins, Clinical Medical)

This book is very interesting to read...Rarely has the history of the discovery of insulin been summarised in such a balanced way. (Victor Jorgens, European Association for the Studies of Diabetes, Diabetologia)

It is a marvellous piece of writing, extremely well written. (David Kerr, Diabetes Digest)

This book should be compulsory reading for anyone offering diabetes care. (David Kerr, Diabetes Digest)

Robert Tattersall has compiled a fact-filled, comprehensive pictyre of Diabetes. (Nursing Care)

Tattersall's biography provides the reader with illuminating and fascinating stories...This is essential reading. (Diabetes & Primary Care)

In this remarkably succinct, comparative, and engaging book, Tattersall offers a comprehensive and thorough history. (Journal of the History of Medicine)

An important contribution to the history of medicine, it should be read by all. (Journal of the History of Medicine)

In his "biography" of the disease...Tattersall provides a complete yet very readable history. (Thomas A. Buchanan, American Journal of Epidemiology)

About the Author:

Robert Tattersall is Special Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Nottingham, and a leading authority on diabetes.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199541361
• ISBN 13: 9780199541362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240