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Crampton, Caroline.
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Crampton, Caroline -- Mental health.
Crampton, Caroline -- Health.
MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
Illness anxiety disorder.
Illness anxiety disorder -- History.
Illness anxiety disorder in literature.
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A body made of glass...
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616.8522 889 2024
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Crampton, Caroline.
Crampton, Caroline -- Mental health.
Crampton, Caroline -- Health.
MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
Illness anxiety disorder.
Illness anxiety disorder -- History.
Illness anxiety disorder in literature.
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A
body
made
of
glass
: a
history
of
hypochondria
/ Caroline Crampton.
by
Crampton, Caroline.
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.
Call #:
616.85223
Subjects
Crampton, Caroline -- Mental health.
Crampton, Caroline -- Health.
MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
Illness anxiety disorder.
Illness anxiety disorder --
History
.
Illness anxiety disorder in literature.
ISBN:
9780063273900
9780063273894
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-310) and index.
Summary:
"Part cultural
history
, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A
Body
Made
of
Glass
is a definitive biography of
hypochondria
. Caroline Crampton's life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn't mean she now felt well. Instead, the fear lingered, and she found herself always on the alert, braced for signs that the illness had reemerged. Now, in A
Body
Made
of
Glass
, 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 deftly 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 far-reaching impact of health anxiety on our physical, mental, and emotional health. At its heart, Crampton explains,
hypochondria
is a yearning for knowledge. It is a never-ending attempt to replace the edgeless terror of uncertainty with the comforting solidity of a definitive explanation. Through intimate personal stories and compelling cultural perspective, A
Body
Made
of
Glass
brings this uniquely ephemeral condition into much-needed focus for the first time"--From publisher.
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