A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind

by Edward Beasley

A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century England

A Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about diabetes given the science of the day? And what did new models of diabetes mean for the treatment and self-image of diabetics?

Ideas about diabetes were revolutionized in 1849...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160618900X
• ISBN13: 9781606189009
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"