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The fight to survive : a young girl, diabetes, and the discovery of insulin / Caroline Cox.
- Title
- The fight to survive : a young girl, diabetes, and the discovery of insulin / Caroline Cox.
- Author
- Cox, Caroline, 1954-2014
- Publication
- New York : Kaplan Pub., c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RC660.4 .C695 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 254 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- The Fight to Survice details Elizabeth Evans Hughes' struggle with diabetes as a young woman and the discovery of insulin by Canadian researchers in the 1920s.
- Subject
- Diabetes > History
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 > United States > History
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 > history
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 > history > United States > Biography
- Diabetics > Biography
- Drug Discovery
- Drug Discovery > history
- Drug Discovery > history > United States > Biography
- Gossett, Elizabeth Hughes, 1907-1981 > Health
- Gossett, Elizabeth Hughes, 1907-1981
- Gossett, Elizabeth Hughes
- History, 20th Century
- History, 20th Century > United States > Biography
- Insulin
- Insulin > History
- Insulin > history
- Insulin > history > United States > Biography
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The dread diabetes -- A good obedient daughter -- A long time to be away -- Showing traces all the time -- How I do love writing -- Oh how I dote on reading -- Born under a lucky star -- The shot heard round the world -- I have nothing to complain of.
- ISBN
- 9781607145516
- 1607145510
- LCCN
- ^^2009019112
- OCLC
- 321009094
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library