Hypochondria
"A personal and literary examination of hypochondria. A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria combines cultural critique, literary history, and Rees's own experience of health anxiety to ask what we might learn from the hypochondriac's discomforting experience of their body. Hypochondria is unashamedly capacious in its range of references, from the writings of Robert Burton, Franz Kafka and Charlotte Brontë to original yet accessible r...