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My Imaginary Illness: A Journey into Uncertainty and Prejudice in Medical Diagnosis (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) by Chloë G K Atkins; Brian David Hodges is a health book available to read on EtoBox.
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How Patients Think 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 be
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- Author
- Chloë G K Atkins; Brian David Hodges
- Publisher
- ILR Press/Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801459948
- Category
- health
- Subjects
- Medical, Psychology, Medicine
- Rating
- 3.58 / 5 (47 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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