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Tag: Theodore Dalrymple

Somatization Disorder

Posted on December 21, 2021December 7, 2021 by Simon
“Somatization Disorder, formerly hypochondria, is to worry about a disease you don’t have and is itself a disease.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Heal... Read More

Life

Posted on December 14, 2021December 7, 2021 by Simon
“Life is a brief interval of consciousness between two eternities of oblivion.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Health Scares”... Read More

Easy Wisdom

Posted on December 7, 2021November 29, 2021 by Simon
“Wisdom after the event is by far the easiest kind of wisdom to attain, and by far the least useful.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Health Scares”... Read More

No Coincidence?

Posted on November 30, 2021October 5, 2021 by Simon
“It is surely no coincidence that everyone in Britain drinks tea, and everyone there dies.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Health Scares” This is a not so ... Read More

Over Reaction

Posted on November 23, 2021October 5, 2021 by Simon
“It is common to over react.” “Like the tourists who cancel holidays in Greece because a bomb has gone off in Cairo.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Health S... Read More

Phantoms

Posted on November 16, 2021November 1, 2021 by Simon
“Passions are more easily stirred by phantoms than by realities.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Health Scares”... Read More

Panic

Posted on November 9, 2021October 5, 2021 by Simon
“One can usually panic about only one or two things at a time.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Health Scares”... Read More

Suffering

Posted on November 2, 2021October 5, 2021 by Simon
“Frantic activity in the face of the inevitable …is another cause of unnecessary suffering.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Health Scares... Read More

Surprise

Posted on October 26, 2021October 5, 2021 by Simon
“Health care is an unimportant component of the good life tout court.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Health Scares... Read More

A Long Life

Posted on October 19, 2021October 5, 2021 by Simon
“Man is a tough, resistant and long lived organism. He does not have to worry himself unduly about his health.” Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988 Subtitle “The Meaning of Health Scares̶... Read More
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