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A Body Made of Glass
Caroline Crampton (Autor)
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An ache a pain a mysterious lump a strange sensation in some part of your body the feeling that something is not right The fear that something is in fact very wrong These could be symptoms of illness But they could also be the symptoms of hypochondria an enigmatic condition that might be physiological or psychological or both In this landmark book Caroline Crampton tells the story of hypochondria beginning in the age of Hippocrates and taking us right through to the wellness industry today Along the way we encounter successive generations of doctors positing new theories as well as quacks selling spurious cure alls to the desperate And we meet those who have suffered with conditions both real and imagined including Moliere Darwin Woolf Freud Larkin and Proust whose symptoms and sensitivities gradually narrowed his life to the space of his cork lined bedroom Crampton also examines the gendered nature of the medical response the financial and social factors at play and the ways in which modern technology simultaneously feeds our fears and holds out the promise of relief Drawing on Crampton s own experience of surviving a life threatening disease only to find herself beset by almost constant anxiety about her health A Body Made of Glass explor
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