Sugar-Sick Yet Healthy: Changing Concepts of Disease in the Dutch Diabetics Association (1945–1970)

Summary Using the journal of Dutch Diabetics Association (Nederlandse Vereniging van Suikerzieken), article provides insight into role an early patient organisation in conceptualising chronic disease diabetes and its management Netherlands between 1945 1970. The dual aims discipline (steered by health professionals) independence diabetics) were reconciled through concept balance during 1940s 1950s. Organised diabetics played a particularly large role, got particular emphasis as consequence. This made it possible for organised patients to reconfigure their identity terms social relation labour, family society post-war reconstruction period. In late 1960s, this transformed personal which lost prominence, despite short intermezzo medicalisation 1960s.