"A literary, historical exploration about the way in which our industrialized lives have made us sick--from diarist Alice James and the 19th century neuraesthenics to current day chronic and stress-related illnesses--that seeks to answer the question who gets sick, and why?"-- A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America.
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ISBN: 9780062941374
Physical Description:viii, 456 pages ; 24 cmprint
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.