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
Summary
This title seeks to change the way we think about hypochondria and to use hypochondria to sharpen our thinking about health care. The book's four parts examine hypochondria as a condition of biology; of medicine; of culture; and of narrative
