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About this book
A candid, provocative, and moving account of one of America's fastest-growing health issues
If you or someone you love has diabetes, you are not alone ā 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 country's 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 advocacy. He offers revealing views of life with diabetes: the urge toward secrecy that many diabetics feel, the everyday psychological and emotional hurdles, and the perseverance ā even heroism ā required for survival. Hirsch takes a look at the science behind the disease and its treatment, and lays bare the impact on our economy, society, and our families. Anyone who lives with diabetes ā or loves a diabetic ā will find this book essential reading.
If you or someone you love has diabetes, you are not alone ā 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 country's 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 advocacy. He offers revealing views of life with diabetes: the urge toward secrecy that many diabetics feel, the everyday psychological and emotional hurdles, and the perseverance ā even heroism ā required for survival. Hirsch takes a look at the science behind the disease and its treatment, and lays bare the impact on our economy, society, and our families. Anyone who lives with diabetes ā or loves a diabetic ā will find this book essential reading.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Prologue
- Diabetic Utopia
- Insulinās 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. Bernsteinās 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
- About the Author
- Footnotes