دانلود کتاب Life in the Age of Insulin: A Brief History (Copernicus Books)

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Note to the Reader
Prologue
A Brief History of Insulin
Before the Dawn (1889–1921)
From Discovery to the Doldrums (1922 to About 1960)
Two Types of Diabetes (~1930–1980)
The Hard Yards (1960–1990)
Insulin Wars
Where Next?
Acknowledgments
Contents
Part I: Before the Dawn
1: Beginnings
1.1 The Wager
1.2 A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
1.3 A Taste of Honey
1.4 The Ghastly Kitchen
References
2: Before the Dawn
2.1 Diabetes in the Nineteenth Century
2.2 Death on the Instalment Plan
2.3 The Allen Era
References
3: Firing Blanks in the Dark
3.1 Why Did It Take So Long?
References
Part II: From Discovery to the Doldrums
4: The Coming of Insulin
4.1 The Bicycle Rider
4.1.1 Ugly Fish
4.1.2 Afterlives
4.1.3 Minkowski’s Choice
References
5: Explorers of Unknown Seas
5.1 Diabetic Utopia
5.2 Charybdis
References
6: Living with Insulin
6.1 Danish Insulin
6.2 The Quest for Purity
References
7: Nemesis
7.1 In the Destructive Element Immerse
7.2 The Invisible Worm
References
8: When the Insulin Ran Out
References
Part III: Two Types of Diabetes
9: The Sensitive and the Insensitive
9.1 The Swan Song of Constitutional Medicine
References
10: The Discovery of Type 1 Diabetes
10.1 The Dancing Mouse
10.2 The Uses of Incest
10.3 Local Gardener Wins Nobel Prize
10.4 Biological Individuality
10.5 What Makes Us Unique?
10.6 We Have Found the Enemy, and He Is Us
10.7 The Walls Come Tumbling Down
10.8 The Heel of Achilles
References
Part IV: The Shape of Things to Come
11: The Endless Frontier
11.1 The War Against Disease
11.2 The Pigs and the Pork Barrel
11.3 An Anthropologist in the Laboratory
References
12: A Short Walk Through Time
12.1 The Wheel of Life
12.2 Fred Sanger’s Journey
12.3 The Shape of Insulin
12.4 The Sound of One Hand Clapping
12.5 Measuring Insulin
12.6 The Evolution of Insulin
12.7 Insulin Resistance
References
13: Out of the Doldrums
13.1 Disease or Risk Factor?
References
14: The Hard Yards
References
15: Insulin Wars
15.1 A Needle in a Genestack
15.2 Business as Usual
15.3 The Role of the Regulator
15.4 All the Insulin in the World
15.5 Globalisation
References
Part V: Modern Times (~1990 On)
16: The Silent Majority
16.1 What Is Diabetes?
16.2 Who Needs Insulin?
References
17: The Market in Insulin
17.1 ‘That’s Where the Money Is’
17.2 What Future for Biosimilar Insulin?
17.3 How the Other Half Dies
References
18: Possible Futures
18.1 The Human Factor
18.2 Access to Insulin
18.3 Preventing Diabetes
18.4 Replacing Insulin
18.5 Biological Alternatives
18.6 The Second Century of Insulin
18.7 Unfinished Business
References