Stories
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
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Notes on need
Writing about bodies, and hearing the stories of others’ bodies, Johanna Hedva also heard, over and over, how people blame themselves – and are encouraged to do this – for illness and disability.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Hypochondria / by R.D. Gillespie.
Gillespie, R. D. (Robert Dick), 1897-1945.Date: 1929- Books
Hypochondria : woeful imaginings / Susan Baur.
Baur, Susan.Date: 1988- Videos
Hypochondriacs - I told you I was ill.
Date: 2007- Books
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Hypochondriasis. A practical treatise on the nature and cure of that disorder; commonly called the hyp and hypo. By J. Hill, M.D.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
Hypochondriacal syndromes / by G.A. Ladee.
Ladee, G. A. (George Aloysius), 1919-Date: 1966