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.

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Description	1 online resource (xxxi, 212 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
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.
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Subject	Myasthenia gravis -- Diagnosis.
	Myasthenia gravis.
	Diagnosis.
	Somatic symptom disorder -- Diagnosis.
	Somatic symptom disorder.
	Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
	Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Hodges, Brian David, 1964-
Other Form:	Print version: Atkins, Chloë G.K. (Chloë Gwyneth Katharine), 1965- My imaginary illness. Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2010 (DLC) 2010013374
ISBN	9780801459948 (electronic book)
	080145994X (electronic book)
	9780801448874
	0801448875