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My imaginary illness :

(Number (ISBN

080145994X

(Number (ISBN

9780801459948

Erroneous ISBN

0801448875

Erroneous ISBN

9780801448874

Title Proper

My imaginary illness :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a journey into uncertainty and prejudice in medical diagnosis /

First Statement of Responsibility

Chloë G.K. Atkins ; with a clinical commentary by Brian David Hodges ; foreword by Bonnie Blair O'Connor.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Ithaca :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

ILR Press/Cornell University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxxi, 212 pages).

Series Title

The culture and politics of health care work. How patients think

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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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At age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for months at a time, she frequently required intubation and life support. She eventually became quadriplegic, dependent both on a wheelchair and on health professionals who refused to believe there was anything physically wrong with her. When test after test returned inconclusive results, Atkins's doctors pronounced her symptoms psychosomatic. Atkins was told not only that she was going to die but also that this was her own fault; they concluded she was so emotionally deranged that she was willing her own death. My Imaginary Illness is the compelling story of Atkins's decades-long battle with a disease deemed imaginary, her frustration with a succession of doctors and diagnoses, her immersion in the world of psychotherapy, and her excruciating physical and emotional journey back to wellness. As both a political theorist and patient, Atkins provides a narrative critique of contemporary medicine and its problematic handling of uncertainty and of symptoms that are not easily diagnosed or known. She convincingly illustrates that medicine's belief in evidence-based practice does not mean that individual doctors are capable of objectivity, nor that the presence of biomedical ethics invokes ethical practices in hospitals and clinics. A foreword by Bonnie Blair O'Connor, who teaches medical students how to listen to patients, and a clinical commentary by Dr. Brian David Hodges, a professor of psychiatry, enrich the book's narrative with practical guidance for medical practitioners and patients alike.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt4r7fc

Title

My imaginary illness.

Diagnosis-- Social aspects.

Myasthenia gravis-- Diagnosis.

Somatization disorder-- Diagnosis.

Diagnostic Errors-- psychology, Autobiography.

Myasthenia Gravis-- diagnosis, Autobiography.

Somatoform Disorders-- diagnosis, Autobiography.

Somatoform Disorders-- psychology, Autobiography.

Diagnosis-- Social aspects.

HEALTH & FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.

MEDICAL-- Clinical Medicine.

MEDICAL-- Diagnosis.

MEDICAL-- Diseases.

MEDICAL-- Evidence-Based Medicine.

MEDICAL-- Internal Medicine.

HEA-- 039000

MED-- 014000

MED-- 022000

MED-- 045000

MED-- 112000

MED018000

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Book number

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Atkins, Chloë G. K., (Chloë Gwyneth Katharine),1965-

Hodges, Brian David,1964-

Date of Transaction

20200822130738.0

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[Book]

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