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Download for free medical books PRETITLE Diabetes: The Biography POSTTITLE from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link (2 reviews) Author: Robert Tattersall ISBN : 9780199541362 New from $8.96 Format: PDFDiabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization. According to the World Health Authority, it now affects 4.6% of adults over 20, reaching 30% in the over 35s in some populations. It is one of the most serious and widespread diseases today. But the general perception of diabetes is quite different.
At the beginning of the 20th century, diabetes sufferers mostly tended to be middle-aged and overweight, and could live tolerably well with the disease for a couple of decades, but when it occasionally struck younger people, it could be fatal within a few months. The development of insulin in the early 1920s dramatically changed things for these younger patients. But that story of the success of modern medicine has tended to dominate public perception, so that diabetes is regarded as a relatively minor illness. Sadly, that is far from the case, and diabetes can produce complications affecting many different organs.
Robert Tattersall, a leading authority on diabetes, describes the story of the disease from the ancient writings of Galen and Avicenna to the recognition of sugar in the urine of diabetics in the 18th century, the identification of pancreatic diabetes in 1889, the discovery of insulin in the early 20th century, the ensuing optimism, and the subsequent despair as the complexity of this now chronic illness among its increasing number of young patients became apparent. Yet new drugs are being developed, as well as new approaches to management that give hope for the future.
Diabetes affects many of us directly or indirectly through friends and relatives. This book gives an authoritative and engaging account of the long history and changing perceptions of a disease that now dominates the concerns of health professionals in the developed world.
Diabetes: the biography is part of the Oxford series, Biographies of Diseases, edited by William and Helen Bynum. In each individual volume an expert historian or clinician tells the story of a particular disease or condition throughout history - not only in terms of growing medical understanding of its nature and cure, but also shifting social and cultural attitudes, and changes in the meaning of the name of the disease itself.
Direct download links available for PRETITLE Diabetes: The Biography (Biographies of Diseases) [Hardcover] POSTTITLE At the beginning of the 20th century, diabetes sufferers mostly tended to be middle-aged and overweight, and could live tolerably well with the disease for a couple of decades, but when it occasionally struck younger people, it could be fatal within a few months. The development of insulin in the early 1920s dramatically changed things for these younger patients. But that story of the success of modern medicine has tended to dominate public perception, so that diabetes is regarded as a relatively minor illness. Sadly, that is far from the case, and diabetes can produce complications affecting many different organs.
Robert Tattersall, a leading authority on diabetes, describes the story of the disease from the ancient writings of Galen and Avicenna to the recognition of sugar in the urine of diabetics in the 18th century, the identification of pancreatic diabetes in 1889, the discovery of insulin in the early 20th century, the ensuing optimism, and the subsequent despair as the complexity of this now chronic illness among its increasing number of young patients became apparent. Yet new drugs are being developed, as well as new approaches to management that give hope for the future.
Diabetes affects many of us directly or indirectly through friends and relatives. This book gives an authoritative and engaging account of the long history and changing perceptions of a disease that now dominates the concerns of health professionals in the developed world.
Diabetes: the biography is part of the Oxford series, Biographies of Diseases, edited by William and Helen Bynum. In each individual volume an expert historian or clinician tells the story of a particular disease or condition throughout history - not only in terms of growing medical understanding of its nature and cure, but also shifting social and cultural attitudes, and changes in the meaning of the name of the disease itself.
- Series: Biographies of Diseases
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (December 8, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199541361
- ISBN-13: 978-0199541362
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With the exploding epidemic of diabetes around the world almost everyone knows someone whose life is touched by this disease. Professor Tattersall brings diabetes to life and gives us a fascinating look into how some very smart people tried to unravel the mysteries of diabetes across the centuries. For those who think that Atkins was the first to give us "low carb" diets just imaging eating the diet that army surgeon John Rollo inflicted on his patient Captain Meredith in 1797! Long before anyone understood how the pancreas worked (or that it was even involved as a cause of diabetes)physicians struggled to help their patients survive the mysterious "pissing evil." With great wit and a steady compassion for the sufferer Tattersall brings diabetes to life in a very readable, yet carefully researched an accurate account of this fascinating and very human condition.By David K. Mcculloch
I bought this book because I was curious about the epidemiology and history of diabetes. I have known people with diabetes, and I also wanted to know more about the reasons why Type 2 diabetes is becoming such a major health concern. I found exactly the sort of useful information about the history and epidemiology of diabetes that I was looking for, and I felt that the author gave clear and interesting explanations about how ideas about diabetes and therefore treatments have changed over time, especially with the discovery of insulin. I was very interested to learn about how comparatively rare this disease was in the past, especially in antiquity. However what I found unexpectedly absorbing was way in which the author managed to give insight into the actual experience of living with diabetes through vivid and sympathetic portraits of people with the disease and how they dealt with the difficulties of treatment and the psychological impact of having the disease. He comes across as a doctor who cares deeply about what he does. The picture drawn by the diabetic child about her longing for sweets, and therefore to be normal, really touched me. I came away from the book with great admiration, not only for doctors and researchers like Banting and Best who have made such a difference in the lives of so many people, but also for the courage and endurance shown by the patients themselves who deal with this disease on a daily basis.By Clio
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