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  Title

  Cheating destiny : living with diabetes, America's biggest epidemic

  Author

  Hirsch, James S.  

  Publisher:

  Houghton Mifflin Co.,

  Pub date:

  2006.

  Pages:

  307 p., [8] p. of plates :

  ISBN:

  0618514619

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    RC660.4 .H57 2006	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0618514619

  ISBN:

  9780618514618

  029:

  YDXCP 2429364

  Personal Author:

  Hirsch, James S.

  Title:

  Cheating destiny : living with diabetes, America's biggest epidemic / James S. Hirsch.

  Publication info:

  Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.

  Physical description:

  307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

  Contents:

  Diabetic utopia -- insulin's poster girl -- The burden of control -- The diabetes queen -- Rewarding failure, punishing excellence -- You have to be brave, or else it hurts -- New lows -- Dr. Bernstein's solution -- High-tech tradeoffs -- Pushing back the horizon -- The magical beta cell -- The trials of a maverick scientist -- -- The price of survival -- Survivor tales.

  Summary:

  We are a diabetic nation: one in three Americans born in this century will become diabetic. Journalist Hirsch's blend of history, reportage, advocacy, and memoir will speak for, and to, the 20 million Americans who live with this disease. This book offers revealing views of the diabetic subculture, the urge toward secrecy that many diabetics feel, the glycemic rollercoaster they ride constantly, and the remarkable perseverance--even heroism--required for survival. Hirsch is uniquely qualified to write this: he has lived with type 1 diabetes for 25 years. His brother, also a diabetic, is one of the country's leading diabetologists. And he knows firsthand the toll diabetes can take on parents: his three-year-old son was diagnosed while he was writing this book. Hirsch draws on all this expertise to craft a surprising portrayal of the science behind the disease and the skyrocketing impact of diabetes on our economy and society.--From publisher description.

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  Subject term:

  Diabetes--Popular works.

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