Ep.60 - Martin Moore - Sugar and Spikes - Historical Approaches to Diabetes Treatment

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Casenotes: A History of Medicine Podcast

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During the last 100 years, the treatment of diabetes mellitus in Britain underwent radical transformation. One of the most striking features of twentieth-century diabetes care was the increasing amount of self-management of the disease. In this talk, Dr Martin Moore explores how medical thought, patient experience and everyday practice of self-management were also influenced by broader structures in British politics, culture, and society.