Description: "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"--
Review Quotes: "Beasley's work painstakingly explores the social construction of diabetes and convincingly argues that the association of diabetes with the nervous system and especially its framing as a mental disorder were the products of 'a male hysteria' ... [This] is an excellent and riveting read that will be of interest to scholars of the history of science and medicine and their students."--John Rankin, East Tennessee State University "Choice"