Title A dose of sanity : mind, medicine, and misdiagnosis / Sydney Walker III

Published New York : Wiley & Sons, [1996] ©1996

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Description xi, 260 pages ; 23 cm Contents Ch. 1. Typhus, Tattoos, and Waterbeds -- Ch. 2. The Psychiatric Bible and the Dangers of Misdiagnosis --Ch. 3. Bad Medicine -- Ch. 4. Prescription Junkies --Ch. 5. What's Really Wrong with You? -- Ch. 6. Talk Soup Can Make You Sick -- Ch. 7. How to Protect Yourself, and Those You Love, from Misdiagnosis -- Ch. 8. "But I'm Not a Patient!" -- Ch. 9. Where Do We Go from Here? Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index Subject Consumer education. Diagnosis. Mental illness -- Diagnosis. Mental illness -- Physiological aspects. Psychiatric errors. Diagnostic errors. Psychological manifestations of general diseases. Diagnostic Errors. Mental Disorders -- diagnosis. LC no. 95046671 ISBN 0471141364 (cloth : alk. paper) 0471192627 (paperback)

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