My imaginary illness
Subtitle: a journey into uncertainty and prejudice in medical diagnosis
By: Chloë G.K. Atkins ; with a clinical commentary by Brian David Hodges ; foreword by Bonnie Blair O'Connor
Contributors: Hodges, Brian David, 1964-
Series: The culture and politics of health care work. How patients think; Culture and politics of health care work
Publisher: ILR Press/Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780801448874
Subjects: Psychology; Social aspects; Myasthenia gravis; Diagnosis; Somatoform Disorders; Myasthenia Gravis; Somatization disorder; Personal Narratives; Diagnostic Errors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: The original crisis; title: Facing uncertainty; title: Ontological apprehensions; title: Diagnosis : conversion reaction; title: Credo; title: More paralysis and more psychological remedies; title: A pyrrhic victory; title: Becoming a pariah; title: Fire! fire!; title: Love in the midst of ruin; title: Grasping at a diagnosis, hoping for a cure; title: The crisis deepens; title: Contemplating hemlock; title: Icarus; title: A crisis, American style; title: Gravy.