Tormented Hope - Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Dillon Brian)

Penguin Books Ltd 2010 Penguin Books Ltd 304 Dillon, Brian Paperback / softback

"Looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the