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If One Part Suffers

The enigma of body integrity dysphoria

Women’s Troubles

by Abby Norman,

By Abby Norman, from Ask Me About My Uterus, which was published last month by Nation Books. Norman is an editor at Futurism, a science and technology website.

Pain Quotidien

From a list of approximately 70,000 diagnostic codes included in the International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification, which was adopted by U.S. health-care providers in October.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Syphilitic

by Kevin Birmingham,

Revisiting James Joyce’s medical record

Heart Monitor (detail)

by Jennifer Wilkey,

Diagnose This

by Heidi Julavits,

How to be your own best doctor

Which way madness lies

by Rachel Aviv,

Can psychosis be prevented?

Trouble Helix

by Harper’s Staff,

From posts on the private message board for 23andMe, a company that sells mail-in genetic-testing kits. In June, 23andMe accidentally mixed up the test results of as many as ninety-six…

The writer is gravely ill

by Roberto Bolaño,Translated by Chris Andrews,

Official probe

by Gloria Squitiro,

Manufacturing Depression

by Gary Greenberg,

A journey into the economy of melancholy