A hand holding a black postcard and a blue book titled "The Origin of the Consciousness in the Down of the Brain." The postcard contains a message and address, with a USPS Freedom stamp in the upper right corner. The background shows green leaves outside a window.
Hand holding a dark blue book cover with a handwritten note inside, regarding the 'Invisible Kingdom' and a small cartoon drawing of a face with an eye. The book titled 'The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Mind' by Julian Jaynes is on the table.

Hey, you are not Meghan O’ Rounke…

But did you know about her published work:

Drawing on her own medical experiences as well as a decade of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, O’Rourke traces the history of Western definitions of illness, and reveals how inherited ideas of cause, diagnosis, and treatment have led us to ignore a host of hard-to-understand medical conditions, ones that resist easy description or simple cures.