A condition of doubt : the meanings of hypochondria / Catherine Belling.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.

x, 281 pages ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-272) and index.

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.