玻璃身体 A Body Made of Glass
对疑病症这一现象的深入探讨
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内容简介 · · · · · ·
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glassis a definitive biography of hypochondria.
Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she now felt well. Instead, the fear lingered, and she found herself always on the alert, braced for signs that the illness had reemerged.
Now, in A Body Made of Glass, Crampton has drawn from her own experiences with health anxiety to write a revelatory exploration of hypochondria—a condition that, though often suffered silently, is widespread and rising. She deftly weaves together history, memoir, and literary criticism to make sense of this invisible and undercovered sickness. From the earliest medical case of Hippocrates to the literary accounts of sufferers like Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust to the modern perils of internet self-diagnosis, Crampton unspools this topic to reveal the far-reaching impact of health anxiety on our physical, mental, and emotional health.
At its heart, Crampton explains, hypochondria is a yearning for knowledge. It is a never-ending attempt to replace the edgeless terror of uncertainty with the comforting solidity of a definitive explanation. Through intimate personal stories and compelling cultural perspective, A Body Made of Glass brings this uniquely ephemeral condition into much-needed focus for the first time.
《玻璃体》既是文化史，又是文学批评，还是回忆录，是一部关于疑病症的权威传记。
卡罗琳·克兰普顿 17 岁时被诊断出患有霍奇金淋巴瘤，这是一种相对罕见的血癌，从此她的人生发生了翻天覆地的变化。经过多年的侵入性治疗，她终于痊愈了。但治愈癌症并不意味着她现在感觉很好。相反，恐惧挥之不去，她发现自己总是处于警惕状态，随时准备应对疾病复发的迹象。
现在，在《玻璃体》一书中，克兰普顿从自己对健康焦虑的亲身经历出发，对疑病症进行了一次揭示性的探索——这种疾病虽然经常默默忍受，但却十分普遍，而且正在不断增加。她巧妙地将历史、回忆录和文学批评交织在一起，以理解这种看不见的、未被发现的疾病。从希波克拉底最早的医学病例到弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和马塞尔·普鲁斯特等患者的文学叙述，再到互联网自我诊断的现代危险，克兰普顿揭示了这个话题，揭示了健康焦虑对我们的身体、心理和情绪健康的深远影响。
克兰普顿解释说，疑病症的本质是对知识的渴望。它是一种永无止境的尝试，试图用令人欣慰的明确解释取代不确定的无边恐惧。通过亲密的个人故事和引人入胜的文化视角，《玻璃体》首次将这种独特的短暂状态带入了急需关注的焦点。
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Caroline Crampton is a writer and reviewer who covers a wide variety of subjects for the Guardian, the Spectator, the Mail On Sunday, and other publications. Her first book, The Way to the Sea, was published by Granta in 2019. She appears regularly as a critic on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Merseyside, England.
卡罗琳·克兰普顿 (Caroline Crampton) 是一位作家和评论家，为《卫报》、《旁观者》、《星期日邮报》和其他出版物撰写各种主题的文章。她的第一本书《通往大海之路》于 2019 年由 Granta 出版。她经常作为评论家出现在 BBC Radio 4 上。她住在英格兰默西塞德郡。
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