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, ...

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

“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.

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

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 ...

A recent Swedish study suggests that people who worry excessively about their health tend to die earlier than those who don’t ...

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?

This reversal – the mind controlling the body, rather than the other way around – became entrenched with the rise of ...

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.

Caroline Crampton was a teenager when a cancer diagnosis shattered her sense of safety in her own body. Crampton was declared healthy a few years later, but she never shook the feeling that the ...