The findings, released in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, point to all sorts of maladies that afflicted the mummified Egyptians, several of whom were identified as members of Tutankhamun's family.
As a writer who writes about writers, I struggle with this surfeit of ideas and impressions myself, but I also can see this so-called malady from a different point of view, through the prism of history.
Some may be concerned, though, that their definition of malady suffers from a problem of circularity.
If meeting her was the high point of his youth, its nadir was the onset, at twenty-two, of a malady that Flaubert would always refer to evasively as "my nervous attacks".
For Marnell, as for Phillips, it turns out that, in the end, not even a nervous breakdown can provide a release from that very American malady: the compulsion to become a focussed, sharply whittled point of pure motion and ambition.
We were thrilled once more to be quoted in "A symphony of maladies".
She collected some of those stories in her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999).
The packs come with pictures of maladies like mouth ulcers, cancerous lungs and gangrenous limbs.
AS an attending physician at U.C.L.A., I see a wide variety of maladies.
Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of "Unaccustomed Earth," "The Namesake" and "Interpreter of Maladies".
