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Diabetes Its Medical and Cultural History

Outlines — Texts — Bibliography

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Dietrich Engelhardt

    1. Institut für Medizin-und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Historical Outlines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Outlines of Historical Development

      • Dietrich von Engelhardt
      Pages 3-12

  3. Literary texts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. A Sad Fall

      • Angus Wilson
      Pages 15-26

    3. The Song of Diabetes

      • Cecil Striker
      Pages 27-33

    4. The Clever Diabetic (1969)

      • Wilhelm Jaenecke
      Pages 34-36

  4. Texts Relating to the History of Scientific Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-40
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    2. General Development

      1. The History of Diabetes mellitus
        • Hans Schadewaldt
        Pages 43-100
      2. Diabetes, Sugar Consumption and Luxury Through the Ages
        • Erich Ebstein
        Pages 101-106

    3. Antiquity

      1. Diabetes
        • Karl Kalbfleisch
        Pages 109-111
      2. Synonyms for Diabetes in Antiquity and Their Etymology
        • Hermann Orth
        Pages 112-119
      3. News, Notes and Queries
        • Folke Henschen
        Pages 120-124
      4. Aretaeus the Cappadocian
        • Eugene J. Leopold
        Pages 125-140

    4. India and China

      1. Epistemological Fashions in Interpreting Disease
        • Manfred Porkert
        Pages 143-159
      2. The Urinary Flux of the Ancient Indians (Prameha)
        • Reinhold F. G. Müller
        Pages 160-197

    5. Renaissance — 19th Century

      1. Paracelsus and the Sugar Disease
        • Hans Schadewaldt
        Pages 201-208
      2. The First Description of the Symptoms of Experimental Pancreatic Diabetes by the Swiss Johann Conrad Brunner (1653–1727)
        • Ole Christian Zimmermann
        Pages 209-228
      3. John Rollo
        • Alexander Marble
        Pages 229-234
      4. Matthew Dobson (1735–1784). Clinical Investigator of Diabetes Mellitus
        • Dietrich von Engelhardt
        Pages 235-237
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About this book

Diabetes. Its Medical and Cultural History covers the history of scientific inquiry into this affliction from antiquity to the discovery of insulin (1921) with concurrent consideration of the history of the patient and the cultural historical background. The reprints of medical historical studies discuss general relationships as well as specific details and exceptional research achievements of the past. Included in the bibliography of primary sources are the most important historical contributions in diabetic research and diabetic therapy with the author's name and information on the place of publication. The bibliography of secondary literature consolidates international studies from the past century to the present on the history of the theory of diabetes and therapeutic approaches. Illustrations and literary texts document cultural historical relationships. In index of persons and items facilitates use of this work which is intended to provide a stimulus for the physician, medical historian, medical student, general historian as well as diabetics themselves.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Medizin-und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Dietrich Engelhardt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Diabetes Its Medical and Cultural History

  • Book Subtitle: Outlines — Texts — Bibliography

  • Editors: Dietrich Engelhardt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48364-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-48366-0Published: 09 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-48364-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 493

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Diabetes, History of Medicine

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