Stories
- Article
Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
- Article
Writing in remission
Reading the writings of the lifelong hypochondriac Jacques Derrida during lockdown, Brian Dillon realises his own health anxiety has become unusually subdued.
- Article
On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
- Book extract
“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
Catalogue
- Film
Hypochondriacs and health care : a tug of war.
Date: 1977- Videos
Hypochondriacs - I told you I was ill.
Date: 2007- Books
Hypochondriacal syndromes / by G.A. Ladee.
Ladee, G. A. (George Aloysius), 1919-Date: 1966- Digital Images
- Online
A. Atkinson, The hypochondriac
A. Atkinson- Digital Images
- Online
The hypochondriac, by T. Rowlandson
Thomas Rowlandson