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"Lively and readable." -- The British Journal for the History of Science "Tattersall's Diabetes analyzes the disease within an increasingly globalized context and through the arsenal that science has developed over the last century to combat the threat diabetes poses. [Diabetes] contributes to our understanding of the ways in which disease and its treatment are linked fundamentally to social and scientific history, and the ways in which biographies can shed new light on some very old diseases."--Chemical Heritage "In this remarkably succinct, comparative, and engaging book, Tattersall offers a comprehensive and thorough history that reveals many of the nuances of this disease and treatments for it. An important contribution to the history of medicine, it should be read by all interested in the history of chronic illness, and the history of diabetes in particular."--Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences "Highly recommended. This elegantly written small book is packed with historial facts and fascinating historical case studies. A useful acquisition for libraries, particularly those in colleges, universities, and medical schools."--Choice Listed in Science Book News "If you are just beginning a career in diabetes research or care, this book will provide you with the important back-story of the major advances in the field that have preceded you. If you are already well-established in the field, the book will consolidate memories and clarify facts surrounding the "urban legends" that abound in diabetes circles. And if you are simply someone who likes a good story about how the present came to be, the book will provide you with a good read about one of the most important human afflictions today and for the foreseeable future. If you place yourself in one of these groups, I strongly recommend the book to you."--American Journal of Epidemiology "This is dark stuff, but fascinating stuff. These four biographies of diseases go far beyond questions of biology or medical practice; they talk politics, sex and class, faith, how to plan a healthy world and how to be a proper woman or a proper man. Strangest and most fascinating of all is the way you keep glimpsing whole societies reflected in the surgery, from the drinking water to the high philosophy."--Scotsman.com Robert Tattersall is Special Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Nottingham, and a leading authority on diabetes.