Insulin: A Hundred-Year History Bradwel Stuart
Insulin: A Hundred-Year History Bradwel Stuart In 1922, an unlikely team of researchers in Toronto made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. When it was given to…
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Insulin: A Hundred-Year History Bradwel Stuart
In 1922, an unlikely team of researchers in Toronto made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. When it was given to diabetic patients on the brink of death, their condition rapidly improved. Their discovery seemed miraculous.
Injections must be taken for life. Those present could barely believe their eyes: they had witnessed resurrection.However, this was no simple cure. Without them, symptoms quickly return, often with fatal results.
But while a lifetime on insulin poses great challenges, it also offers opportunities. In this revelatory history, Stuart Bradwel looks back on one of medicine's most celebrated innovations. Setting professional narrative against subjective patient experience, he tells the story of a drug that has challenged many of the basic assumptions upon which medical practice is built, both inside and outside the
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