Books to help with Diabetes

Books about diabetes, pumping insulin, carbo counting, children with diabetes and more.....

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Paperback, 332 pages 4th Ed Published by Torrey Pines Pr Publication date: July 2006 Dimensions (in inches): 0.6 x 8.9 x 7.6 ISBN: 1884804861

Pumping Insulin : Everything You Need to Know to Use an Insulin Pump Successfully by John Walsh, Ruth Roberts the BIBLE of pumping Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. ORDER & PRICE info for: Pumping Insulin

Paperback
Published by Marlowe & Co.
Publication date: December 10, 2002
Dimensions (in inches): 0.60 x 8.98 x 6.04
ISBN: 1569245088

Insights into the day-to-day challenges and rewards of life with a pump. The author uses a pump and has interviewed more than 75 pump users as well as diabetes experts. This book discusses how the pump affects our sex life, dealing with money issues, finding support, counting carbs, and much much more.

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Paperback 241 pages
Published by Marlowe & Company
Publication date: April 1, 2004
Dimensions (in inches): 0.8 x 9.0 x 6.4
ISBN: 1569244367

Gary Scheiner, CDE and insulin pump user, gives you the tools to "think like a pancreas", to successfully master the art and science of matching insulin to the body's ever-changing needs. Free "Think Like a Pancreas" is packed with useful information not readily available in other books.

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Paperback
Published by McGraw Hill
Publication date: November 5, 2002
Dimensions (in inches): 0.46 x 10.14 x 7.00
ISBN: 1580401252

This book combines a comprehensive medical approach toward intensive diabetes management and pump therapy with a patient-centered appreciation of the real-life challenges and frustrations.

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Hardcover 91 pages
American Diabetes Association
Publication date: July 2002
ISBN: 1580401252

A book for your Doctor

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Paperback
Published by Torrey Pines Pr
Publication date: January 1996
Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 10.99 x 8.54
ISBN: 1884804829

Information you need to match insulin doses to food and exercise, adjust for highs, lows and emergencies, as well as charting blood sugars.

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Paperback - 268 pages
Piara Publishing (May 1998)
ISBN: 9163062615

This book would be extremely useful to families and young adults who want comprehensive information and for nurses, general practitioners and other health professionals involved in the care of people with IDDM.

Our Insulin Pumpers reviewer (a retired doc) writes: I strongly urge all type 1 diabetics to read "Insulin dependant diabetes" by Ragnar Hannus a pediatrician in Sweden. This is well written in English, it has cartoons and drawings which illustrate some of our problems. You can get it from Amazon.com I reviewed it for them some months ago. I call it the Mouse book because, apologies to Cheryl M, it has a mouse on the cover. The technical lingo is minimal and everything is well explained. I even recommend this book to med students. Hanus's son has diabetes so it is written from the heart. A recommendation before pumping. you can know what is wrong with your sweet body by reading it.

The full chapter on insulin pumping can be viewed and downloaded in PDF format.

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Reading level: All Ages
Spiral-bound - 37 pages (September 14, 2000)
Grandma Sandy; ISBN: 0968667201

The authors web site also has games and books about type 1 diabetes that may be viewed and downloaded for free in PDF format at: www.grandmasandy.com, including this book about pumping that explains in simple words and pictures how a pump works, about bolus's and basals, etc...

Paperback, 1st edition
128 pages (Aug 6, 1995)
Dimensions (in inches): 0.38 x 8.46 x 5.57
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471347426

Our reviewer wrote: Life with diabetes is a challenge. Life as a teenager is a challenge. Combining the two makes for an enormous challenge. In Control -- A Guide for Teens with Diabetes is the best book I've seen that addresses the concerns and issues of teens.

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Paperback
Reading Level: 9-12
128 pages (May 1998)
Dimensions (in inches): 0.45 x 8.36 x 5.54
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471347310

What Children Want Their Parents to Know

Diagnosed at eleven, 20-year-old Alicia McAuliffe here uses personal experiences, and those of the kids with diabetes whom she now counsels, to examine issues the often overlooked social and emotional aspects of diabetes are equally as important to the child.

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This book encompasses the clinical practices of the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes and belongs in the home of everyone with Type I diabetes. It is a detailed and comprehensive discussion of diabetes treatment, management and the problem associated with living daily with diabetes.

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You can view this book on-line directly from the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes.

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A Practical, Empathetic Guide to Help You and Your Child Live With Diabetes

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Paperback - 368 pages
March 1, 1999
3rd rev. edition
Lowell House
Dimensions (in inches): 0.98 x 8.19 x 5.48
ISBN: 073730085X

Written by a diabetic male doctor. Very empathetic and informative.....covers problems just glossed over in typical diabetic books including sexual dysfunction.

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Hardcover, 204 pages
Henry Holt & Co., Inc.
February 1998
Dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x 8.60 x 5.87
ISBN: 0805038833

A guide prepared specifically for the male diabetic. Shows the diabetic how to manage his daily and long-term health care and explains why those with diabetes must use extra vigilance to avoid infections to live and full and healthy life. Written by a doctor blind for 15 years due to his disease.

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Paperback - 75 pages
June 1996
American Diabetes Association
Dimensions (in inches): 0.21 x 8.97 x 6.01
ISBN: 0945448058

Excellent book for an expecting woman to use to aid her in questioning her Doctors further, but not an in-depth source of information. It is missing a great deal of information that a well versed insulin dependent diabetic woman would want and expect to know. No information about Humalog® or insulin pumps.

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For women, diabetes compounds the problems caused by puberty, periods pregnancy, and menopause, this book covers each of those topics in detail. Printed sometime ago, this bestselling classic remains the only book to address these unique problems.

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Paperback - 256 pages
McGraw-Hill. (August 1, 2004)
Dimensions (in inches)
9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1580402038

This book addresses basic concepts as well as more advanced issues related to tight blood glucose control. Topics include portion control, food variation, protein in carb counting, the impact of fat on bg control and more....

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Paperback - 336 pages
Marlowe & Co. (Dec 10, 2002)
Dimensions (in inches)
1.02x8.56x6.56
ISBN: 1569245061

Our Insulin Pumper reviewer writes: I've just started reading it. It goes into great detail on the subject and in the back of the book lists about 300 foods and their glycemic index #, fat grams and CHO. One person endorsing the book is John Walsh (Pumping Insulin) - so thought I'd give it a go.

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Plastic Comb 17th Edition
Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins
Publication date: January 15, 1998
Dimensions (in inches): 1.19 x 10.97 x 9.37
ISBN: 0397554354

Opens flat for easy reference during meal prep. Very detailed, probably more so than many users want (or need). Makes a good "foundation" type book for your food reference collection.

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Paperback, 90 pages
Published by Signet
June 1993
Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x 5.99 x 4.00
ISBN: 0451177177

Pocketbook sized... and has fast food and ethnic restaurants listed.

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Paperback, 464 pages
12th Rev Edition
Published by Signet
Publication date: January 1997
Dimensions (in inches): 1.25 x 6.89 x 4.18
ISBN: 0451190270

lists 8,000 foods.

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Paperback, 720 pages
4th Rev Edition
Published by Dell Books
Publication date: February 1997
Dimensions (in inches): 1.78 x 7.01 x 4.29
ISBN: 0440221102

800 pages of food counts (including calories, protein grams, carbohydrate grams, and more...). Information on many generic food items, brand name items and restaurant and fast food chains (McDonalds, Arby's, etc...).

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Paperback, 352 pages
Published by the ADA
Publication date: August 1997
Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 6.89 x 4.23
ISBN: 0945448759

Reference for calories, grams of carbo, and exchanges. Includes information on name brands, fast foods, frozen entrees, meat, poultry, seafood, produce, and desserts.

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Paperback, 416 pages
Published by De Capo Press
Publication date: July 21, 2008
ISBN: 1600940633

Each recipe has a GI rating for optimal nutrition and a list of diabetic exchanges to facilitate meal planning.

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Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: July 2000
ISBN: 1930448015

National Health Information Awards Winner. Over 11,000 food listings and full analysis of over 80 fast food resturants. The book is supported by www.calorieking.com a free information service for new food product data.

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Paperback, 380 pages
4th Edition
Published by Chronimed Pub
Publication date: May 1997
Dimensions (in inches): 0.81 x 8.47 x 5.38
ISBN: 1885115350

Includes extensive carbo information on food ingredients. Excellent reference for cooking at home.
This one is really comprehensive, includes ingredients that go into most receipies for home cooking. A very good buy.

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Paperback
730 pages
(August 2005)
Dimensions (in inches):
6.8 x 4.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 1580402461

This book is filled with nutrition information for more than 5,000 items from nearly 60 of the most popular restaurant chains across America - from McDonalds, to Bruegger's Bagels, Subway, Pizza Hut, TCBY, and many more. Beyond nutrition information the book starts you off with the how to's of healthy restaurant eating. This book is helpful for anyone with diabetes or anyone who eats away from home.

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Paperback
5th edition (October 1997)
Chronimed Pub
Dimensions (in inches):
0.36 x 5.52 x 4.06
ISBN: 1885115431

All the CARBS, fats, etc... for the fast food chains

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Our Insulin Pumpers forum member writes:
I use the book called " Nutrition In The Fast Lane" it's a fast-food dining guide. It has about 52 fast food restaurants in it. The book is small enough to put in a purse or side pocket in your car. I bought 2 of them to put one of them in each car. They update this book every year. It even has Dairy Queen and TCBY in it.

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Hardcover - 1152 pages
Revised edition November 1997
Publisher: Scribner
Dimensions (in inches):
2.31 x 9.60 x 6.98
ISBN: 06848187012

In addition to being a GREAT cookbook, has a comprehensive list of carbohydrates for LOTS of foodstuffs in the back. You may think I'm nuts, but I actually have two copies of the older edition of this book AND a copy of this edition.

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Paperback, 682 pages
Published by Avery Pub
Publication date: March 1995
Dimensions (in inches): 1.58 x 7.00 x 4.18
ISBN: 0895296322

No, I didn't pick it because he is the doc that always appears on the Today show. (I don't like "Today.") It is very comprehensive, lists over 30,000 food products including both brand name and raw ingredients. (It even includes "reindeer milk"! No kidding!)

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Paperback, 438 pages
Published Three Rivers Pr.
Publication date: Dec 1999
Dimensions (in inches): 1.22 x 9.22 x 7.38
ISBN: 0609805142

This book is different from other diabetes cookbooks in that, it is not typical Diabetic "American." You do not feel as if you are preparing or eating a meal for diabetes. And each of these tempting recipes is accompanied by a complete nutritional analysis.

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Paperback (August 2000)
McGraw Hill - NTC
Dimensions (in inches):
0.45 x 8.04 x 9.01
ISBN: 1580400434

ATLANTA (CNN) -- When Chef Chris Smith was diagnosed with diabetes seven years ago, his physician advised him to drop out of culinary school and find a new vocation altogether. "My doctor said it would be just too hard to work around all that food," he says. Instead, Smith decided to put his professional experience to use. He began conducting diabetic cooking seminars and is set to release his first cookbook in June. "Cooking with the Diabetic Chef" is a guide to eating that strives to add intense flavors to food without adding fat, salt and sugar.

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Old but good. comprehensive: carbs, fats, minerals, fast foods.

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Spiral Bound, 448 pages
Published by
Black Dog And Leventhal
Publication date: May 1998
Dimensions (in inches):
1.20 x 9.00 x 7.00
ISBN: 157912030X

A comprehensive, easy-to-use encyclopedia of nutritional values for generic, brand name, and fast foods. Mylar coated, comb binding with section dividers.

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Paperback - 224 pages
McGraw Hill-NTC (October 1999)
Dimensions (in inches)
0.57x8.99x6.04
ISBN: 1580400310

16 Myths of a "Diabetic Diet" shows how to eat foods with sugar (not sugar substitutes!), eat in a restaurant without ruining your meal plan, enjoy all of your favorite family recipes, and a great deal more.

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Paperback - 284 pages
Owl Books. (October 2000)
Dimensions (in inches)
0.85 x 9.22 x 7.34
ISBN: 0805060782

Anyone suffering from an allergy to wheat will find Hagman's book a godsend. The author has tested and retested dozens of yeast breads and quick breads, rools and muffins, crackers, an more for those who would otherwise be deprived of their "daily bread". Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Paperback - 336 pages
Henry Holt & Co., Inc. (Jan 6,2004)
Dimensions (in inches)
1.10 x 9.50 x 7.64
ISBN: 0805074538

Recipes for everything from Fruited Dressing for Pork and Chicken and Four-Star Chili to Biscuits and Grayv, Microwave Chicken and Dumplings and Chocolate Pecan Cupcakes. Copyright Reed Business Information

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Paperback - 396 pages
Owl Books (June 2000)
Dimensions (in inches)
1.21.902.6.08
ISBN: 0805065253

Recipes for every part of the meal, including stir-fry dinners and recipes for vegetarians. She lists new bean flours that can be used in cake, pie, and cookie recipes and provides bread recipes for bread machines using these new wheat-free flours. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information

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Paperback - 160 pages
Savory Palate, (Feb 1, 2003)
Dimensions (in inches)
0.49 x 9.00 x 6.10
ISBN: 1889374083

Easy, Basic Dishes without Wheat offers simple, streamlined recipes for those basic foods we all crave when we're gluten-free. Crusty French bread, chewy Pizza, decadent Brownies, flaky Pie Crust, old-fashioned Biscuits. They're all possible using Carol's new, versatile sorghum based flour blend.

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Paperback - 288 pages
Savory Palate, 2nd ed (Mar 1, 2003)
Dimensions (in inches)
0.65 x 8.90 x 6.56
ISBN: 1889374105

Carol wrote this book for all of you who asked for ideas for family get-togethers...or a meal with friends...or those special occasions like birthday parties, picnics, or the holidays.

The 2nd edition has been updated to include the latest gluten-free culinary techniques, the latest flours, and boasts an extensive appendix to help you with ingredient substitutions.

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Paperback - 297 pages
Savory Palate, 4TH edition (May 2002)
Dimensions (in inches)
0.64 X 9.00 X 6.02
ISBN: 1889374059

Wheat-free, gluten-free recipes for breads, desserts, breakfast dishes, sauces, side dishes, and salad dressings can also be made without dairy. Recipes use rice, bean, potato starch, and tapioca flours. Nutrient values for each recipe.

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Paperback - 192 pages
New Page Books, (Aug 2003)
Dimensions (in inches)
0.41 x 8.90 x 4.58
ISBN: 156414688X

This book contains recipes, a listing of cookbooks, and numerous helpful resources, including Websites, support groups, and food companies. There is also a section with answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding celiac disease and living a gluten-free life.

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Paperback - 288 pages
Savory Palate, (Sep 2002)
Dimensions (in inches)
0.83 x 8.96 x 6.02
ISBN: 1889374075

Help for Children Who Can't Eat Wheat, Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, Corn, Soy, or Nuts

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Paperback - 261 pages
Human Kinetics Publishers
September 1, 2000
Dimensions (in inches)
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0736032711

If you are already an avid exerciser, then you are aware of most of the benefits of exercise for your physical health and your diabetes...

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Paperback - 224 pages
McGraw Hill-NTC (December 2000)
Dimensions (in inches)
0.41x8.34x4.97
ISBN: 1580400418

This one-of-a-kind new guide features complete how-to information on preparing and packing necessary supplies for a trip, traveling by land, sea, or sky, eating well, coping with unexpected illness, taking insulin, and more. An international glossary includes helpful, diabetes-specific phrases in five languages.

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Hardcover - 214 pages
Published Sept 15, 2001
Publisher: Lifeline Pr
Dimensions (in inches):
1.01 x 9.26 x 6.28
ISBN: 0895262304

Miss America 1999 shares her struggles and pain and illuminates the issues surrounding the diabetes epidemic against the backdrop of the pageant industry.

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Hardcover - 192 pages
Published August 1999
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Co.
Dimensions (in inches):
1.15 x 8.58 x 5.73
ISBN: 0393047539

A comprehensive understanding of the evolution of diabetes research, brings us up to date on current therapeutic options, and helps readers to grasp the many challenges that still lie ahead. For the families of people with diabetes and the medical professionals who care for them, it also offers a rare and frank insight into the life of a diabetic person beyond the day-to-day physical management of the disease. Going further than the clinical language of blood tests, diets, and insulin regimens, it shows diabetes as a force that molds a person's personality and profoundly shapes his or her life.

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Hardcover - 252 pages
Published March 2005
Publisher:
Authorhouse
Dimensions (in inches):
9.0 x 6.0 x 0.7
ISBN: 1420801198

Insulin Pumpers member, author and writer Jan Hughey chronicles events from her life with diabetes since the 1950's. This book offers hope and encouragement to people with diabetes, and helps educate those who do not have it. Tips, hints, a few recipes, as well as Jan's 54 years of living with DM, pumping for over two decades, and dialyzing for three years are also chronicled inside. Miss America, 1999 has written the foreword.

A C.L.I.P. of Poems is a companion book of 72 poems by Jan Hughey with colored illustrations; nine of them deal directly with diabetes. This book also has larger print, bold, is 8.5x11, 108 pages.

A portion of the proceeds benefits Insulin Pumpers and the JDRF.

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Paperback - 256 pages
(November 1, 1999)
Publisher:
McGraw Hill - NTC
Dimensions (in inches):
0.78 x 8.49 x 5.52
ISBN: 1580400337

One reader writes: If you have been stressed out about diabetes and cant quiet figure out why, you need this book.

If a loved one has diabetes and it seems that everything you say to them about diabetes is wrong, you need this book.

William Polonsky is very insightful on this subject. I have been struggling with Type I diabetes for 15 years and have read many books on the subject. What I like about this book it that it is "interactive" This books gives you direction. It gives you hope. Diabetes is a tough thing to go through and this book validates your feelings. It handles objectives in a very clear manner. Its not just a bunch of information thrown at you. Dr. Polonsky suggests ways to include the information that he writes about in very real situations.

This book is uplifting, refreshing, direct, (humorous too!).

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Hardcover - 390 pages
Published May 1997
Little Brown & Company
Dimensions (in inches):
1.23 x 9.47 x 6.28
ISBN: 0316093440

I've not read the book. I'm told that the general advice is good, but the dietry advice (hi-fat lo-carb = stable bg's and low complications risk) runs counter to mainstream thinking. Some people say that the improvement in their health and diabetes control when they went on his lo-carb diet was remarkable.

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Paperback - 256 pages
Published Mar 10, 2000
John Wiley & Sons
Dimensions (in inches):
0.70 x 8.97 x 6.00
ISBN: 0471347841

The book responsibly suggests alternative and complementary therapies that augment traditional diabetes management practices rather than replace them.

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hardcover      paperback

Paperback
August 2000
ISBN: 0805056459

Hardcover - 288 pages
1st Edition, Aug 99
Henry Holt & Co., Inc.
Dimensions (in inches):
1.11 x 8.57 x 5.83
ISBN: 0805056254

One of the most realistic autobiographies about DM that I have read. Many of the other ones make it seem like no big deal, but this one admits that it is a big part of life, and I especially liked that. It's smooth reading too. Very good. I definitely recommend it to everyone.

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Paperback - 384 pages
3rd Rev edition
(November 1999)
Publisher:
McGraw Hill - NTC
Dimensions (in inches):
0.76 x 9.03 x 6.00
ISBN: 0737302585

A book that is helpful in addressing issues not covered in other diabetes books. Rather than give diet and exercise tips, it discusses the psychological battle that occurs when one is struggling to cope with diabetes, and it provides insight on how to deal with issues such as denial, anger, depression, grief, fear, frustration and guilt.

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Hardcover - 224 pages
Published October 1998
Publisher Scribner
Dimensions (in inches):
0.83 x 8.75 x 5.75
ISBN: 0684842327

A memoir of growing up with diabetes, Beautifully written, revelatory, and profoundly affecting, Needles is a classic account of a young life transformed by illness.

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Paperback - 268 pages
1st edition (Nov 15, 1998)
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
Dimensions (in inches)
0.74x9.13x5.97
ISBN: 0801859093

Reviewed by David E. Goldstein, MD
The authors explain that this book is intended for primary care clinicians who, in the face of expanding managed care, will be responsible by necessity for diabetes management. The book is divided into an introduction and 13 chapters that cover the full range of patient care issues as well as more basic aspects of diabetes, including up-to-date information about the causes, classification, and diagnosis as well as "hot" research topics such as new insulin delivery systems and clinical trials on prevention of type I diabetes. The writing style is easy to follow with numerous case histories to illustrate the concepts. The text is replete with good illustrations and tables. In addition, the appendix has useful forms for home record keeping, sample letters for schools, a sample clinic assessment form, and a sample hospital clinical path form for management of diabetic ketoacidosis and for routine management. In addition, the appendix includes an excellent list of references and useful resources including diabetes-related Web sites. The chapters on medical presentation and initial management (chapter 2) and on psychological issues (chapters 11 and 12) are particularly well done.

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Paperback
Reprint Edition (Nov 1984)
University of Chicago Press
Dimensions (in inches):
0.69 x 8.95 x 5.97
ISBN: 0226058980

This edition is lower priced than the 1996 edition listed below. Don't know what the difference may be, if any. See story description below.

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Paperback - 174 pages
Revised Updtd (July 1995)
Publisher: Avon
Dimensions (in inches)
0.54 x 6.87 x 4.21
ISBN: 0380777614

In simple and straightforward language, this sourcebook for people just diagnosed, as well as long-term diabetics, has been completely revised and updated to include the very latest in treatments, research, information and technologies.

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Paperback - 351 pages
Published July 1995
Publisher Fireside
Dimensions (in inches):
0.89 x 9.33 x 6.17
ISBN: 0684802082

An authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide for those who have diabetes furnishes a manual of expertise, advice, and techniques developed at the Joslin Clinic to help patients manage the disease.

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Published April 1996
Simon & Schuster
Dimensions (in inches):
1.02 x 9.24 x 6.10
ISBN: 068482387X

An authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide for those who have diabetes furnishes a manual of expertise, advice, and techniques developed at the Joslin Clinic to help patients manage the disease. 40 charts, line drawings, and graphs.

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