Cheating Destiny Living with Diabetes

Name: Cheating Destiny Living with Diabetes
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ISBN: 9780618918997

ISBN-10: 061891899X

ISBN-13: 9780618918997

Edition: 2006

Authors: James S. Hirsch

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A candid, provocative, and moving account of one of Americas fastest-growing health issues If you or someone you love has diabetes, you are not alone - more than twenty million Americans now live with the disease. In Cheating Destiny, the best-selling author James S. Hirsch offers an incisive, sometimes surprising portrait of diabetes in America. Hirsch is intimately familiar with the disease: he has lived with type 1 diabetes for three decades. His brother, Irl, also a diabetic, is one of the countrys leading diabetologists. Most poignantly, his son Garrett was diagnosed at age three. Hirsch draws on his unique expertise to provide an engaging blend of reportage, memoir, history, and…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

James S. Hirsch is a former reporter for the "New York Times" & the "Wall Street Journal." He lives in Needham, Massachusetts.



Prologue



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


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index