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A Body Made of Glass is a clever blend of memoir and science writing that elevates a funny and faintly ridiculous subject into a piece of cultural history” — Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday. “Poetic and personal, this book reveals a condition that is debilitating and often hidden” — Kirkus Reviews.
23 kwi 2024 · 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.
23 kwi 2024 · A Body Made of Glass unpicks the mysterious relationship between mind, body, and a health anxiety that may or may not have a physical source. Crampton's personal history makes her perfectly qualified to adjudicate the ultimate question: is it all in the mind?
11 kwi 2024 · In her insightful book "A Body Made of Glass," Caroline Crampton takes readers on a captivating journey through the cultural evolution of hypochondria – that obsession with ailments both real and imagined.
5 maj 2024 · Caroline Crampton shares her own worries in “A Body Made of Glass,” a history of hypochondria that wonders whether newfangled technology drives us crazier.
12 kwi 2024 · In the late 14th century, a spate of patients scattered across Europe developed an unusual delusion: They came to believe that their bodies were made of glass.
11 kwi 2024 · A fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers - for fans of Andrew Solomon and Siddhartha Mukherjee. 'There is a twilight zone between illness and health, and that's where I dwell'.
