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Author Atkins, Chloë G. K. (Chloë Gwyneth Katharine), 1965-

Title My imaginary illness : a journey into uncertainty and prejudice in medical diagnosis / Chloë G.K. Atkins ; with a clinical commentary by Brian David Hodges ; foreword by Bonnie Blair O'Connor.

Publication Info. Ithaca [N.Y.] : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2010.

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 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  616.7442 ATK    Check Shelf
Description xxxi, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
Series The culture and politics of health care work. How patients think
Culture and politics of health care work. How patients think.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Beginnings -- The original crisis -- Facing uncertainty -- Ontological apprehensions -- Diagnosis : conversion reaction -- Credo -- More paralysis and more psychological remedies -- A pyrrhic victory -- Becoming a pariah -- Fire! fire! -- Love in the midst of ruin -- Grasping at a diagnosis, hoping for a cure -- The crisis deepens -- Contemplating hemlock -- Icarus -- A crisis, American style -- Gravy.
Subject Myasthenia gravis -- Diagnosis.
Somatic symptom disorder -- Diagnosis.
Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
Myasthenia Gravis -- diagnosis -- Autobiography.
Diagnostic Errors -- psychology -- Autobiography.
Somatoform Disorders -- diagnosis -- Autobiography.
Somatoform Disorders -- psychology -- Autobiography.
Added Author Hodges, Brian David, 1964-
ISBN 9780801448874 cloth alkaline paper
0801448875 cloth alkaline paper
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