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January 24, 2014 02:50 pm PST
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Fashionable diseases, past andpresent
Today, we are gluten sensitive. In the past, we might have had the vapors, or melancholy, or consumption. Throughout history, some diseases, even ones that are very real, have taken on social meaning and social cache — becoming part of lifestyle identities as much as they are a part of biology.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Nr7GwNJ_lw0/story01.htm
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