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A condition of doubt : the meanings of hypochondria /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Belling, Catherine Francis
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Hypochondria.
Hypochondriasis > diagnosis.
Hypochondriasis > history.
Stereotyping.
Hypochondrie.
Table of 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.