Edward Beasley

A Male Hysteria

Diabetes and the Victorian Mind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book explores the history and treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the nineteenth-century understanding of the disease and medicine's attempts to grapple with the disorder for the past two centuries"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781606189016
• ISBN-10: 1606189018
• Artikelnr.: 69525191

Autorenporträt

Edward Beasley. With a preface by Andrew Scull

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Abbreviations
Preface Diabetes Then and Now by Andrew Scull
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Diabetes Before Bernard
Chapter 3. Bernard's Revolution and the Diabetes of the Brain
Chapter 4. Diabetes and Medical Science after Bernard
Chapter 5. Robert Saundby's Statistical and Clinical Response
Chapter 6. Hysteria and Henry Maudsley
Chapter 7. The Cultural Context
Chapter 8. The Lives Affected: Diabetes in the DNB
Chapter 9. Diabetes at the Spa
Chapter 10. From the Brain to the Pancreas
Chapter 11. Insulin and After
Chapter 12. Conclusion