The symptoms and meanings of hypochondria have shifted continually, always in step with changing conceptions of wellness and ...

The health care system, with its sterile corridors and clinical language, became my battleground, where I fought for answers ...

“On a per-novel basis,” writes Caroline Crampton in her history of hypochondria, A Body Made of Glass, “she surely outpaces ...

In an interview, journalist Caroline Crampton talks about her new book, “A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of ...

There’s simply nothing to see. Her strange symptoms have no detectable source, and in medicine both modern and historic, ...

For me, hypochondria always takes the form of questions, never answers. Did I always have a mark on my skin there? Is that a tendon I can see in my neck, or is it a new lump of some mysterious kind?

“I am a hypochondriac,” she writes in her new book, “A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria.” “Or, at least, I worry that I am, which really amounts to the same thing.

Caroline Crampton shares her own worries in “A Body Made of Glass,” a history of hypochondria that wonders whether newfangled ...

Or, at least, I worry that I am, which really amounts to the same thing. Hypochondria is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “a mental condition characterised by the persistent and ...

This condition used to be called hypochondria. What Are the Features of Somatic Symptom Disorder? People with somatic symptom disorder are worried about having a physical illness. The symptoms can ...

There’s simply nothing to see. Her strange symptoms have no detectable source, and in medicine both modern and historic, “illness without cause” is summarily dismissed as hypochondria.