The distinction between 鈥渞eal鈥 and imagined illness is under debate ARTHUR TREES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Caroline Crampton (Granta)
Picture someone with hypochondria. It may be a friend who keeps an inventory of symptoms and ailments, is never without a doctor’s appointment and turns up armed with the latest from Google. label such people disparagingly as the “worried well”, those whose demand on medical services is seen to outweigh their need.
But a new book challenges that derogatory and outdated view of hypochondria 鈥 now more commonly known as health anxiety in response to the…
