Caroline Crampton’s cultural history of hypochondria begins with her own hunt for a tumor. She stares at her reflection in a bathroom mirror at work, fingers kneading her neck, searching for suspicious lumps. Tumors, she knows from experience, have “a certain texture … a hard kernel moored deep inside with a slippery casing that can move over muscle and under skin.”

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