What is going on in there?
Hilary Mantel: Hypochondria, 5 November 2009
Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives
by Brian Dillon.
277 pp., £18.99, September 2009,978 1 84488 134 5 Show More
by Brian Dillon.
277 pp., £18.99, September 2009,
“... a way of life. Adopting for a moment the familiar, modern and derogatory meaning of the word, Brian Dillon consoles us that ‘hypochondriacs are almost always other people.’ The condition exists on a continuum, with fraud at one end, delusion in the middle and medical incompetence at the other end; he is a benefits cheat, you are a ... ”