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

    • Title:Cheating destiny : living with diabetes, America's biggest epidemic / James S. Hirsch.
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    • Author/Creator:Hirsch, James S.
    • Published/Created:Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Diabetes--Popular works.
    • Description:307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-278) and index.
    • ISBN:9780618514618
      0618514619
    • Contents:1. Diabetic utopia
      2. Insulin's poster girl
      3. burden of control
      4. diabetes queen
      5. Rewarding failure, punishing excellence
      6. You have to be brave, or else it hurts
      7. New lows
      8. Dr. Bernstein's solution
      9. High-tech tradeoffs
      10. Pushing back the horizon
      11. magical beta cell
      12. trials of a maverick scientist
      13. price of survival
      14. Survivor tales.
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