Diabetes. Its Medical and Cultural History covers the history of scientific inquiry into this affliction from antiquity to the discovery of insulin (1921) with concurrent consideration of the history of the patient and the cultural historical background. The reprints of medical historical studies discuss general relationships as well as specific details and exceptional research achievements of the past. Included in the bibliography of primary sources are the most important historical contributions in diabetic research and diabetic therapy with the author's name and information on the place of publication. The bibliography of secondary literature consolidates international studies from the past century to the present on the history of the theory of diabetes and therapeutic approaches. Illustrations and literary texts document cultural historical relationships. In index of persons and items facilitates use of this work which is intended to provide a stimulus for the physician, medical historian, medical student, general historian as well as diabetics themselves.

Historical Outlines

Outlines of Historical Development
Literary texts
A Sad Fall
The Song of Diabetes
The Clever Diabetic
Texts Relating to the History of Scientific Study
General Development
The History of Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes, Sugar Consumption and Luxury Through the Ages. A Question Posed by History
Antiquity
Diabetes
Synonyms for Diabetes in Antiquity and Their Etymology
News, Notes and Queries. On the Term Diabetes in the Works of Aretaeus and Galen
Aretaeus the Cappadocian. His Contribution to Diabetes Mellitus
India and China
Epistemological Fashions in Interpreting Disease. The Deleterious Effects of Western Terminology on the Application of the Scientific Tradition of Chinese Medicine (illustrated by the case of diabetes mellitus vs. sitis diffundens [shiao-k'o])
The Urinary Flux of the Ancient Indians, Prameha (with Special Reference to the Carakasamhita)
Renaissance - 19th Century
Paracelsus and the Sugar Disease
The First Description of the Symptoms of Experimental Pancreatic Diabetes by the Swiss Johann Conrad Brunner (1653-1727)
John Rollo
Clinical Investigator of Diabetes Mellitus anonymous
Then and Now: 100 Years of Diabetes Mellitus
On the Development of Anatomical Research on the Pancreas from Vesalius to Bichat. Part I: from Vesalius to Kerckring
On the Development of Anatomical Research on the Pancreas from Vesalius to Bichat. Part II: from Borelli to Bichat
From the History of Diabetes with Particular Reference to the Pancreas
First Steps in Claude Bernard's Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver
The Priority Dispute between Claude Bernard and Victor Hensen about the Discovery of Glycogen
Paul Langerhans - of Islets and Islands
The Discovery of PancreaticDiabetes. The Role of Oscar Minkowski
Apollinaire Bouchardat 1806-1886
The First Case of Diabetic Retinopathy (Eduard von Jaeger, Vienna 1853)
The History of Traumatic Diabetes
Insulin Precursors - a Historical Sketch. The First Attempts at Treating Diabetes with Pancreatic Extracts
Karl Petrén. A Leader in Pre-Insulin Dietary Therapy of Diabetes
Discovery of Insulin
On the History of the Discovery of Insulin
Problems of Priority in the Discovery of Insulin
Right and Wrong Avenues of Exploration in German Insulin Research
50 Years of Insulin Treatment at the Vienna Hospital for Children - the Fate of Diabetic Children from the First Insulin Era (1973)
The Beginning of the Diabetic Association in England
The Early History of the American Diabetes Association
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Bibliography of Secondary Literature.