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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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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Endocrinology

• Full title: Diabetes Its Medical and Cultural History
• Subtitle: Outlines - Texts - Bibliography
• Author: Dietrich V. Engelhardt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 493
• EAN: 9783642483660
• ISBN: 9783642483660
• ID: 06616150
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Weight: 861 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 170 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. April 2012

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