玻璃制成的身体:疑病症的历史 A Body Made of Glass : A History of Hypochondria

基本信息

Format:Hardback 336 pages

Publisher:Granta Books

Imprint:Granta Books

ISBN:9781783789054

Published:11 Apr 2024

Weight:448g

Dimensions:223 x 144 x 32 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

一种疼痛，一种疼痛，一种神秘的肿块，身体某些部位有一种奇怪的感觉，感觉有些事情不对劲。 担心某些事情实际上是非常错误的。 这些可能是疾病的症状。 但它们也可能是疑病症的症状——一种可能是生理或心理或两者兼而有之的神秘病症。

在这本具有里程碑意义的书中，卡罗琳·克兰普顿讲述了疑病症的故事，从希波克拉底时代开始，一直带我们到今天的健康行业。 一路走来，我们遇到了一代又一代提出新理论的医生，也遇到了向绝望的人兜售虚假灵丹妙药的庸医。 我们遇到了那些遭受过真实和想象的痛苦的人，包括莫里哀、达尔文、伍尔夫、弗洛伊德、拉金和普鲁斯特，他们的症状和敏感性逐渐将他的生活缩小到软木塞卧室的空间。 克兰普顿还研究了医疗反应的性别性质、发挥作用的财务和社会因素，以及现代技术如何同时满足我们的恐惧并提供缓解的希望。

《玻璃之躯》借鉴了克兰普顿自己在危及生命的疾病中幸存下来却发现自己几乎不断对自己的健康感到焦虑的经历，探索了大多数回忆录无法触及的疾病景观的一部分：超越生存或生存的领域。 身体和心灵似乎被困在一种奇怪而疲惫的舞蹈中。 其结果既是一部引人入胜的忧郁症文化史，又是对这种看不见、难以捉摸且日益广泛传播的病症的意义的感人描述。

An ache, a pain, a mysterious lump, a strange sensation in some part of your body, the feeling that something is not right. The fear that something is, in fact, very wrong. These could be symptoms of illness. But they could also be the symptoms of hypochondria - an enigmatic condition that might be physiological or psychological or both.

In this landmark book, Caroline Crampton tells the story of hypochondria, beginning in the age of Hippocrates and taking us right through to the wellness industry today. Along the way, we encounter successive generations of doctors positing new theories, as well as quacks selling spurious cure-alls to the desperate. And we meet those who have suffered with conditions both real and imagined, including Moliere, Darwin, Woolf, Freud, Larkin, and Proust whose symptoms and sensitivities gradually narrowed his life to the space of his cork-lined bedroom. Crampton also examines the gendered nature of the medical response, the financial and social factors at play, and the ways in which modern technology simultaneously feeds our fears and holds out the promise of relief.

Drawing on Crampton's own experience of surviving a life-threatening disease only to find herself beset by almost constant anxiety about her health, A Body Made of Glass explores part of the landscape of illness that most memoirs don't reach: the territory beyond survival or cure, where body and mind seem locked in a strange and exhausting kind of dance. The result is both a fascinating cultural history of hypochondria and a moving account of what it means to live with this invisible, elusive and increasingly wide-spread condition.

作者简介

卡罗琳·克兰普顿 (Caroline CRAMPTON) 是一位作家兼播客，撰写有关世界以及我们如何生活在其中的文章。 在专注于非小说类文学之前，她曾在《新政治家》和《泰晤士报》等出版物从事新闻工作。 她的初本书《通往大海的道路：泰晤士河口被遗忘的历史》（格兰塔，2019 年）被评论家形容为“像河流一样优雅而蜿蜒”，“智慧、迷人且内容丰富”。 她的新书是《玻璃制成的身体：疑病症的历史》（Granta，2024 年）。 她关于黄金时代侦探小说的获奖播客 Shedunnit 由 BBC Sounds 发行。 作为一名广播员，她曾出现在 BBC 第二台、天空新闻台、BBC 广播二台和 BBC 广播四台上，她的评论曾由《卫报》、《伦敦书评》和《观众》发表。

CAROLINE CRAMPTON is an author and podcaster who writes about the world and how we live in it. She worked in journalism at publications like the New Statesman and The Times before focusing on literary non-fiction. Her first book, The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary (Granta, 2019), was described by critics "as elegant and sinuous as the river" and "wise, fascinating and informative". Her new book is A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria (Granta, 2024). Her award-winning podcast about golden age detective fiction, Shedunnit, is distributed by BBC Sounds. As a broadcaster, she has appeared on BBC Two, Sky News, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4 and her reviews have been published by the Guardian, London Review of Books and Spectator.