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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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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