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Bradwel, Stuart, author.
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Diabetes -- Treatment -- History.
Insulin -- History.
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Insulin : a hundred-...
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Insulin : a hundred-year history / Stuart Bradwel.
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Bradwel, Stuart, author.
Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2023.
Subjects
Diabetes -- Treatment -- History.
Insulin -- History.
ISBN:
9781509550722 (hardcover)
1509550720 (hardcover)
Series:
History of health and illness.
Description:
xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction: What is insulin and why does it matter? -- Toronto, 1921-1923 -- Insulin in practice, 1922-1978 -- 'Intensification', 1976-1993 -- Subjectivity, paternalism, Neoliberalism, 1993-2002 -- The insulin crisis, 2002-present -- Conclusion: Insulin for all?
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In this history, Bradwel looks back on one of medicine's most celebrated innovations. Setting professional narrative against subjective patient experience, he tells the story of a drug that has challenged many of the basic assumptions upon which medical practice is built, both inside and outside the clinic. Nevertheless, Bradwel reminds us that the centenary of this apparent "wonder drug" should be no cause for celebration. Insulin often remains inaccessible to those who need it most: elusive prescriptions, uneven availability and sky-high prices result in rationing and desperate do-it-yourself research and development. In the face of bootstraps rhetoric and "Pharma Bro" capitalists, patients across the world are left to fend for themselves. There is a long way to go in the twenty-first century until insulin truly fulfills the extraordinary promises made by its discovery. --From publisher's description.
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