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With the new mobility (social and geographical) made possible in the eighteenth century, worth and station were not given; they must be asserted. They were asserted through new notions about clothes ("fashion") and new attitudes towards illness. Both clothes (the outer garment of the body) and illness (a kind of interior decor of the body) became tropes for new attitudes toward the self.

"A disease of the lungs is, metaphorically, a disease of the soul. Cancer, as a disease that can strike anywhere, is a disease of the body. Far from revealing anything spiritual, it reveals that the body is, all too woefully, just a body."

so essentially i need to stop my anxiety about getting sick because it might actually make me sick 😭😭