Cheating Destiny

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Hirsch, James S. 저자(글)

Houghton Mifflin · 2007년 11월 01일

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James S. Hirsch, a former reporter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, is the author of Cheating Destiny, the bestseller Hurricane: The Miracle Journey of Rubin Carter, Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy, and Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam. He is also a principal of Close Concerns, a consultancy and publishing company that specializes in diabetes. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Sheryl, and their children, Amanda and Garrett.
A candid, provocative, and moving account of one of America's fastest-growing health issues If you or someone you love has diabetes, you are not alone - more than twenty million Americans now live with the disease. In Cheating Destiny, the best-selling author James S. Hirsch offers an incisive, sometimes surprising portrait of diabetes in America. Hirsch is intimately familiar with the disease: he has lived with type 1 diabetes for three decades. His brother, Irl, also a diabetic, is one of the country's leading diabetologists. Most poignantly, his son Garrett was diagnosed at age three. Hirsch draws on his unique expertise to provide an engaging blend of reportage, memoir, history, and advocacy. He offers revealing views of life with diabetes: the urge toward secrecy that many diabetics feel, the everyday psychological and emotional hurdles, and the perseverance - even heroism - required for survival. Hirsch takes a look at the science behind the disease and its treatment, and lays bare the impact on our economy, society, and our families. Anyone who lives with diabetes - or loves a diabetic - will find this book essential reading.
Distinguished journalist and best-selling author James S. Hirsch offers an engaging blend of history, reportage, advocacy, and memoir that speaks for, and to, the more than twenty million Americans who live with diabetes. Hirsch is intimately familiar with the disease: he has lived with type 1 diabetes for three decades. His brother, Irl, also a diabetic, is one of the country's leading diabetologists. Most poignantly, his young son, Garrett, was diagnosed with it at age three. Hirsch draws on all this expertise to craft an incisive, surprising portrayal of the science behind the disorder and its skyrocketing impact on our economy and society. Cheating Destiny offers revealing views of life with diabetes: the urge toward secrecy that many diabetics feel, the glycemic roller coaster they ride, the everyday psychological and emotional hurdles, and the perseverance-even heroism-required for survival. Anyone who lives with diabetes-or loves a diabetic-will find here an empowering voice.
"A character-driven account, written with barely controlled anger, of what diabetes is, what it is like to be diabetic and how and why the medical community is failing to deal effectively with this widespread and as-yet-incurable condition...A provocative amalgam of staunch advocacy, person experience and investigative reporting."
"Hirsch has an insider's candor speaking about life with diabetes, the sensitivity of the parent of a child with a chronic eillness, and skill of a good journalist reporting on the medical, social, economic, and scientific details of what was once called 'the wasting disease'."
"Hirsch has written the book that people who care about diabetes have been waiting for...[He] persuasively illustrates an epidemic that is at odds with modern society at almost every level."
"Hirsch has written the book that people who care about diabetes have been waiting for . . . Hirsch persuasively illustrates an epidemic that is at odds with modern society at almost every level."
"Hirsch has written the book that people who care about diabetes have been waiting for . . . Hirsch persuasively illustrates an epidemic that is at odds with modern society at almost every level." The Washington Post "Hirsch includes material about himself, his brother, and his son to make his searing points." The Seattle Times
"Hirsch includes material about himself, his brother, and his son to make his searing points."

작가정보

저자(글) Hirsch, James S.

JAMES S. HIRSCH is a former reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and he is author of ten books, including biographies of Willie Mays and Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.

목차

• Prologue	p. 1
  Diabetic Utopia	p. 9
  Insulin's Poster Girl	p. 25
  The Burden of Control	p. 45
  The Diabetes Queen	p. 56
  Rewarding Failure, Punishing Excellence	p. 74
  You Have to Be Brave, or Else It Hurts	p. 88
  New Lows	p. 112
  Dr. Bernstein's Solution	p. 126
  High-tech Tradeoffs	p. 135
  Pushing Back the Horizon	p. 152
  The Magical Beta Cell	p. 171
  The Trials of a Maverick Scientist	p. 184
  The Price of Survival	p. 220
  Survivor Tales	p. 240
  Epilogue	p. 257
  Notes	p. 269
  Bibliography	p. 276
  Acknowledgments	p. 279
  Index	p. 285
  Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

기본정보

ISBN	9780618918997 ( 061891899X )
발행(출시)일자	2007년 11월 01일
쪽수	336쪽
크기	142 * 211 * 23 mm / 295 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어