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A condition of doubt : the meanings of hypochondria / Catherine Belling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belling, Catherine Francis, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illness anxiety disorder.
- Hypochondriasis--diagnosis.
- Hypochondriasis--history.
- Stereotyping.
- Hypochondriasis.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hypochondriasis--diagnosis.
- Hypochondriasis--history.
- Stereotyping.
- Hypochondriasis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 281 pages)
- Other Title:
- Meanings of hypochondria
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title seeks to change the way we think about hypochondria and to use hypochondria to sharpen our thinking about health care. The book's four parts examine hypochondria as a condition of biology; of medicine; of culture; and of narrative.
- Contents:
- That within : biologies of hypochondria
- Medicine's ghost : the unnatural history of an unreliable idea
- Swimming in the dark : the hypochondriac in the body
- Contested authority : an expert patient lectures the physicians
- Hating hypochondriacs : stigma and stereotype
- Dangerous fearlessness : the formation of physicians
- Be informed : medical knowledge
- Be responsible : cautionary tales
- Be afraid : horror stories
- How can I tell? Professing hypochondria
- The story that won't begin : hypochondria's narrative structure
- Unreliable historians : hypochondria's narrators.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-272) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-989237-7
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