The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives by Brian Dillon

The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives

Brian Dillon

288 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hand...

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