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as part of the plot. In the late twentieth century, most films' references to diabetes were minor. Characters with diabetes were developed in plots in which the disease "played a more significant role" in films such as ''

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''. Dr. Kevin L. Ferguson discussed such films in the ''Journal of Medical Humanities'' and reported, "Films that represent diabetes must work around the disease's banal invisibility, and images of diabetics in film are especially susceptible to metaphor and exaggeration." ''Everyday Health'' reported, "Sometimes, filmmakers get it wrong: mixing up different types of diabetes, imagining symptoms or complications that aren't accurate, or unfairly portraying another aspect of the condition."

List of films

References

Bibliography

*{{cite journal , last=Ferguson , first=Kevin L. , date=September 2010 , title=The Cinema of Control: On Diabetic Excess and Illness in Film , journal=Journal of Medical Humanities , volume=31 , issue=3 , pages=183–204 , issn=1041-3545 , doi=10.1007/s10912-010-9110-8 , pmid=20376543 , s2cid=27743573 , url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/204

External links

Type 1: Diabetes in the Movies
at ''Diabetes Health''

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