The predicaments of "dangerous safety": living with juvenile diabetes in 20th century America.
Remedies are not useless because they fall short of their full scope. It is better to keep a man on the edge of a precipice, if you cannot pluck him away from it, than to let him fall over. And many diabetic patients are kept in this predicament of dangerous safety. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic, 1836-1837 SirThomas Watson
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195-7183, USA. feudtner@u.washington.edu
D001294:Attitude to Health; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D012307:Risk Factors; D012449:Safety; D015996:Survival Rate / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology