Diabetes. Its Medical and Cultural History covers the history of
scientific inquiry into this affliction from antiquity to the
discovery of insulin (1921) with concurrent consideration of the
history of the patient and the cultural historical background. The
reprints of medical historical studies discuss general
relationships as well as specific details and exceptional research
achievements of the past. Included in the bibliography of primary
sources are the most important historical contributions in diabetic
research and diabetic therapy with the author's name and
information on the place of publication. The bibliography of
secondary literature consolidates international studies from the
past century to the present on the history of the theory of
diabetes and therapeutic approaches. Illustrations and literary
texts document cultural historical relationships. In index of
persons and items facilitates use of this work which is intended to
provide a stimulus for the physician, medical historian, medical
student, general historian as well as diabetics themselves.
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