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A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

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A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria - Crampton, Caroline
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"Crampton has drawn from her own experiences with health anxiety to write a revelatory exploration of hypochondria--a condition that, though often suffered silently, is widespread and rising. She ... weaves together history, memoir, and literary criticism to make sense of this invisible and undercovered sickness. From the earliest medical case of Hippocrates to the literary accounts of sufferers like Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust to the modern perils of Internet self-diagnosis, Crampton unspools this topic to reveal the ...

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A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria 2024, Ecco Press

ISBN-13: 9780063273900

Hardcover