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A Body Made of Glass review: A very personal history of hypochondria


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A Body Made of Glass review: A very personal history of hypochondria

The distinction between “real” and imagined illness is under debate

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Caroline Crampton (Granta)

Picture someone with hypochondria. It may be a friend who keeps an inventory of symptoms and ailments, is never without a doctor’s appointment and turns up armed with the latest from

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label such people disparagingly as the “worried well”, those whose demand on medical services is seen to outweigh their need.

But a new book challenges that derogatory and outdated view of hypochondria – now more commonly known as health…





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