Charlotte Bronte 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 hands of God and
doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified by disease and by the idea
of disease. Glenn Gould claimed a friendly pat on his shoulder had
destroyed his ability to play piano. And we all know someone who
has trawled the Internet in solitude, seeking to pinpoint the
source of his or her fantastical symptoms.
"The Hypochondriacs "is a book about fear and hope, illness and
imagination, despair and creativity. It explores, in the stories of
nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is
mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill.
And, in an intimate investigation of those lives, it shows how the
mind can make a prison of the body by distorting our sense of
ourselves as physical beings. Through witty, entertaining, and
often moving examinations of the lives of these eminent
hypochondriacs--James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin,
Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel
Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol--Brian Dillon brilliantly
unravels the tortuous connections between real and imagined
illness, irrational fear and rational concern, the mind's aches and
the body's ideas.
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