We've Come a Long Way…Haven't We?

Diabetes is a fascinating disease. On the one hand, it is a pure biomedical disease, with clear pathophysiology, numerous effective technological management strategies and a gold standard outcome (glycated hemoglobin). On the other hand, diabetes is a behavioural illness, in which the achievement of positive outcomes rests to a great extent on the situation-specific behavioural choices of the person with diabetes and the psychosocial context in...