Hypochondriac hermeneutics: Medicine and the anxiety of interpretation

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 376-401

  Belling, Catherine ^a,b  

^a Department of Preventive Medicine ^*

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; LITERATURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANXIETY; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE;

EID: 34548155460     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.2007.0000     Document Type: Review

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