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Author Hirsch, James S.

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

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.462 HIRSCH    Check Shelf
Description 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-278) and index.
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.
Subject Diabetes -- Popular works.
ISBN 0618514619
9781448709083 Paw Prints
Standard No. 9780618514618
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