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A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria
Belling, Catherine (Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University)
A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria
Belling, Catherine (Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University)
A Condition of Doubt seeks to change the way we think about hypochondria, and to use hypochondria to sharpen our thinking about health care. It claims that contemporary hypochondria should be understood less as mental illness in particular patients than as a rational if maladaptive condition emerging from gaps between doctors' and patients' expectations of contemporary Western medicine.
288 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 28, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9780199892365 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 167 × 240 × 20 mm · 574 g |