Susannah B. Mintz

Susannah B. Mintz, Professor of English and author exploring literary, historical, and philosophical approaches to health anxiety. She reframes hypochondria as communication and creative potential. Conversations touch on historical meanings, modern diagnoses, temporality called hip time, epistemologies of illness, and links between disease anxiety, identity, and aging.

Susannah B. Mintz, Professor of English at Skidmore College and author of Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story, reframes health anxiety as creative and communicative rather than pathological. She explores historical meanings, modern diagnostic shifts, hypochondria as social realism and knowledge production, links to politics and aging, and how stigma and bias shape care.