Jess Libow teaches writing and health studies at Haverford College. She is the author of Vigorous Reforms: Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States (UNC Press, 2025).
Jess Libow
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Writing on Public Books
The Hypochondriac’s Complaint
“Today, health anxiety is characterized largely by the patient’s relationship with healthcare. The hypochondriac is at once suspicious of medical authority and eager for it to advance.”
Stomaching Wellness
“The wellness industry’s promotion and legitimization of ableist self-perceptions makes it an especially dangerous force in the lives of the chronically ill.”
