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How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It
Kaplan Publishing
January 2010
On Sale: January 5, 2010
336 pages
ISBN: 1607144581
EAN: 9781607144588
Hardcover
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Written by award-winning investigative journalist Dan
Hurley, Diabetes Rising is a gripping expose of the quest
for a cure for the disease that afflicts hundreds of
millions of people around the world. Hurley chronicles
today’s diabetes epidemic—how the disease has grown so
dramatically, why the American Diabetes Association focuses
its attention on just a small handful of available
treatments, and why the research being done today doesn’t
look beyond accepted types of treatments. Just as Eric
Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation uncovered the sordid details
leading to an epidemic of obesity, Dan Hurley uncovers the
hidden truths of what is being researched—and even more
importantly, what is not. Diabetes Rising explores both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes,
one of the leading causes of deaths in the United States.
With ground-breaking research and compelling stories seen
through an investigative, historical, and narrative lens,
Diabetes Rising couples big-picture insight with intimate
reporting. The book yields riveting insight into the
struggle between the pervasive malady and the medical
community’s ongoing search for answers. Informed but not
dominated by the author’s own experience as a Type 1
diabetic, Diabetes Rising grants exclusive access to new
studies, innovative treatments, and determined patients.
Hurley’s sharp, entertaining, and provocative read will
change how readers understand diabetes, and the cultures,
conditions, and medical climates in which it thrives.
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