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Allusionist 191. Hypochondria

March 23, 2024 The Allusionist

The word 'hypochondria' has travelled from meaning physical ailments in a particular region of your body, to ones that are only in your mind. It has been in fashion, and thoroughly out; it has been subject to a range of treatments; it has been lucrative for quacks; and it's a very understandable form of anxiety - which I have, and so does Caroline Crampton, author of the new book A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria.

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In episodes Tags etymology, vocabulary, history, Caroline Crampton, hypochondria, hypochondriac, hypochondrium, bodies, medical, medicine, health, anxiety, health anxiety, mental health, psychology, depression, melancholy, science, doctors, treatment, Four Humors, humoral theory, humorism, bile, hysteria, Cicero, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sanditon, literature, cures, wellness, quacks, class, panaceas, DSM-5, diagnosis, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Illness Anxiety Disorder, uncertainty, cancer, spleen, liver, gut, abdomen, uterus, womb, edaphic, humors, four humours, four humors

Allusionist 36: Big Lit

May 14, 2016 The Allusionist

'Classics' started off meaning Latin and Greek works, then literary works that smacked of similar, and now - what, exactly? Books that are full of bonnets and dust?

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In episodes Tags words, literature, literary, authors, books, writers, writing, reading, read, rereading, classics, novels, Jacqueline Susann, Jane Austen, Emma, Clueless, Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, The House of Mirth, Valley of the Dolls, Anthony Trollope, Stoner, John Williams, F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Sylvia Plath, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Practical Classics, adaptations, high school, movies, TV, film, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Franz Kafka, Philip Larkin, jobs, work, guilt
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