PDF-(BOOS)-A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria

The hypochondriac is a complicated figure often treated with scorn and derision resented for making excessive demands on attention and health care resources Lacking credibility but needing to be taken seriously the hypochondriac is most doctors least favorite patient Yet people whosuffer from hypochondria endure the anxiety of suspecting they are seriously ill or are about to be and having their suspicions and their suffering dismissed as baseless A Condition of Doubt seeks to change the way we think about hypochondria and to use hypochondria to sharpen our thinking about health care It claims that contemporary hypochondria should be understood less as mental illness in particular patients than as a rational if maladaptive conditionemerging from gaps between doctors and patients expectations of contemporary Western medicineMedicine relies on objective evidence to verify the absence or presence of disease The hypochondriac struggles to accept reassurance that no disease can be found Examining the tension between these two positions reveals insights into clinical reasoning and practice into patients not justhypochondriacs clinical experiences and into our medicalizing cultures troubled understandings of health illness risk and uncertainty The books four parts examine hypochondria as a condition of biology of medicine of culture and of narrative Using a wealth of texts from the medical literature published illness narratives psychiatric diagnostics online discussions and popular culture A Condition of Doubt is both anexample of and a case for the place of serious humanities scholarship in understanding medicine and in understanding how medicine thinks about itself and trains its practitionersThis book argues that over the last halfcentury patients have become postmodern but medicine has not and claims that hypochondriaas a shared cultural conditioncan be addressed by rethinking both patients expectations of medical omniscience and physicians need to meet such expectations Thismeans reconceptualizing hypochondria and more broadly reconceptualizing medicines orientation toward the unknown. 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Paul Tillich. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. . – Voltaire. Doubt. Doubt. Bad Concepts of God #1: Old Bearded Man. Bad Concepts of God #2: Cosmic Chess-Player. Two myths about doubt. A fundamental approach to take toward our doubts. The main cause of our doubts. The kinds of doubt we have. When in doubt.... Doubting God's love or goodness. Four Major Areas of Doubt. Hypochondri. a. Hypochondria is a somatoform disorder. Hypochondria is described as the abnormal chronic anxiety of ones health.. Hypochondriacs become unduly alarmed about any physical or psychological symptoms they detect no matter how minor the symptom may be, and are convinced that they have, or are about to be diagnosed with a serious illness.. La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur . Twelve Angry Men What is Reasonable Doubt? In the United States, juries must be instructed to apply the reasonable doubt standard when determining the guilt or innocence of a criminal defendant , but there is much What is it?. Health phobia or anxiety where people are excessively worried about having a particular disease. . Categorized as a somatic amplification disorder – perception and cognition. . Condition is due to the result of an inaccurate perception of the condition of body or mind..