Insulin: A Hundred-Year History - Stuart Bradwel
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In 1922, researchers made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. Their discovery seemed miraculous. When it was given to diabetic patients on the brink of death, their condition rapidly improved.
However, this was no simple cure. Injections must be taken for life. Without them, symptoms quickly return, often with fatal results. But while a lifetime on insulin poses great challenges, it also offers opportunities. In this revelatory history, Stuart Bradwel looks back on one of medicine’s most celebrated innovations. Setting professional narrative against subjective patient experience, he tells the story of a drug that has challenged many of the basic assumptions upon which medical practice is built, both inside and outside the clinic.
Nevertheless, Bradwel reminds us that the centenary of this apparent “wonder drug” should be no cause for celebration. Insulin often remains inaccessible to those who need it most: elusive prescriptions, uneven availability and sky-high prices result in rationing and desperate do-it-yourself research and development. In the face of bootstraps rhetoric and “Pharma Bro” capitalists, patients across the world are left to fend for themselves. There is a long way to go in the twenty-first century until insulin truly fulfills the extraordinary promises made by its discovery.
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 5/5
February 27th, 2024
Thanks Goomer
February 27th, 2024
Thank you
February 27th, 2024
Thank you
February 27th, 2024
Thank you!
February 27th, 2024
Thank you for this book. I have a question. Just curious. If COVID Vaccines were given away for free all over the world to save lives, how come insulin injections are not given for free?
February 27th, 2024
@callmebill For Diabetes, due to a genetic or auto-immune fault, insulin is for life if you are Type I. For Type II it’s still potentially for life - but you have a chance (choice) to reverse it’s cause, but only if you change you eating habits and lifestyle for the better - i.e. more healthy choices.
Vaxcines are usually one-off, or periodic (a top-up) depending on risk of exposure - i.e. if you are going to a country known for a particular thing you can vaxcine against e.g. malaria, or Hepatitis etc.
Unless it’s HIV+, then that is also for life presently.
February 29th, 2024
@callmebill insulin IS free if you live in a decent country. If you live in the USA then you are stuffed. Altho iirc they recently introduced a price cap.
Nationalised medical is the way to go.
February 29th, 2024
@Callmebill - Nothing is free.
Covid Vaccines were not given away for free, like they came from some magic jellybean field. They are the most profited drugs ever made. Its governments that decided that it was in the best interest to buy them with tax revenue and give people a dose or so to try and keep the economy from tanking. Diabetics take insulin multiple times a day for a lifetime.
Better question is why is Narcan / Naloxone free, but epi-pens are hundreds of $.
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