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Author(s): Helen Cooper, Robert Geyer
ISBN(s): 9781846190452, 1846190452
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 103.69 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1846190452 
ISBN 13: 9781846190452
Author: Helen Cooper, Robert Geyer

This work includes foreword by Ian Botham, OBE, former England Cricket Captain and father of a daughter with Type 1 Diabetes. This groundbreaking book reveals how science and medicine have traditionally tried to make diabetes simple and orderly, despite its obvious messiness and complexity. The result has left patients, carers and health professionals confused and frustrated. Using complexity science, “Riding the Diabetes Rollercoaster” provides a radical new approach to understanding and managing diabetes that embraces its uncertainties and challenges. From a complexity perspective, the diabetes rollercoaster is normal and is a mirror of life itself. Learning to embrace and use the tools of complexity can completely alter your approach to diabetes. “Despite huge amounts of research, funding and effort, diabetes – like many other chronic illnesses – refuses to go away or even to get any easier to deal with. Health professionals have grown increasingly frustrated with their inability to develop radical improvements; patients and carers struggle to comply with complicated self management regimes. We believe that Complexity offers a way forward. Learning to balance rather than control diabetes is the ultimate goal of diabetes management.” – Helen Cooper and Robert Geyer, in the Preface.

Riding the Diabetes Rollercoaster A Complete Resource for EMQs v 2 1st Table of contents:

1 Diabetes and its treatment: yesterday and today
Bad and good news
Diabetes: the historical perspective
Treating diabetes: from variety to order and back again
Today: focusing on balance rather than control
An international perspective
The expert in all of us
Looking back … a child’s perspective
2 What is complexity?
The vision of order
The natural sciences spill over into the social and medical sciences
Science and society don’t stand still
Complexity in the physical world
Complex systems in the living world
Complexity in the human world
How does this relate to everyday human events?
3 Learning how to use ‘complexity mapping’
Health and the health system from an orderly perspective
Health and the health system from a complexity perspective
From health to diabetes: making the most of complexity mapping
What does diabetes look like from a complexity perspective?
Thought experiment: mapping your own complexity
4 Learning to play the right ‘mind games’: moving from anxiety to balance
A couple of facts
Complexity dynamics in the diabetes psychological world
Another way of understanding the paradox: X–Y graphs vs. fitness landscapes
A different point of view: the fitness landscape
Learning about yourself: losing the anxiety
Can patient education make a difference?
An old approach from a different perspective
Another silly exercise
Looking back . . . Kathleen’s story
5 Managing the complexities of diabetes
Why is management complex?
The art of management: from hierarchical to interactive management
The Stacey diagram: what does it look like?
Have a go
The diabetes boxes: going three-dimensional
Outcomes
And the moral of this tale?
One more thing
6 Diabetes and the ‘cascade of complexity’
Punctuated equilibrium, frozen accidents, regularities and gateway events
Creating a complexity cascade
Diabetes and the complexity cascade
Do you need to have diabetes to have a complexity cascade?
The cascade of complexity game
7 Complementary management of diabetes
Alternatives to the dominant modern approach
Learning to think ‘complementarily’
Relaxation therapy and diabetes: exploring the evidence
And the world beyond relaxation: Chinese medicine, placebo effects, acupuncture, herbal therapies . . .
What can you do now?
Have a go
8 A call for personal and professional reaction
Getting a good ‘balance’ and taking responsibility for your own ‘balance’
Letting go of the fear and uncertainty and ‘feeling yourself better’
Little steps may be just as important as big ones
Getting your daily dose of learning: the strengths and limits of knowledge, and the knowledge of strengths and limits
Is there such a thing as a ‘final cure’ for diabetes?
Complexity is the norm: learn to recognise and accept it in diabetes and elsewhere
If you are convinced, reflect and do

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