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“Many patients choose to mask their conditions. They do so for a range of reasons that can include shame, as well as varied measures of debility or tolerance of discomfort, differing attitudes toward risk, lack of access to healthcare, distrust of doctors, and more. Giving patients a voice, despite a degree of unknowability, is a challenge of many histories of disease. That aim lies at the heart of this book.”