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Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes

Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes

Current price: $21.99
Publication Date: November 6th, 2007
Publisher:
Mariner Books
ISBN:
9780618918997
Pages:
336
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Description

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.

About the Author

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.
 

Praise for Cheating Destiny: Living with Diabetes

“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 —