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A body made of glass : a history hypochondria
Crampton, Caroline2024
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Click and Collect for A body made of glass : a history hypochondriaCrampton 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, this book explores part of the landscape of illness that most memoirs don't reach: the territory beyond survival or cure, where body and mind seem locked in a strange and exhausting kind of dance. The result is both a fascinating cultural history of hypochondria and a moving account of what it means to live with this invisible, elusive and increasingly wide-spread condition.
Main title:
A body made of glass : a history hypochondria / Caroline Crampton.
Author:
Crampton, Caroline, author
Imprint:
London : Granta Books, 2024.©2024
Collation:
321 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781783789054 (hbk)9781783789054
Dewey class:
616.8525616.852
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
564272
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Health and Wellbeing | 616.852 CRA | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 18 Jul 2024) |
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