Have we become ... hypochondriacs luxuriating in health anxieties precisely because we are so healthy and long-lived that we have the leisure to enjoy the luxury of worrying.
-- Roy Porter (The Greatest Benefit to Mankind)

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This is #RoyPorter on #Bentham’s response to asceticism - “did not Queen Victoria find being not amused highly amusing indeed?” ‘Happy Hedonists’ #BMJ 321 (2000).