Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article opens with a survey of the works of those physicians who, in the eighteenth century, expanded on the Classical and Renaissance theorization of hypochondria. It then looks at the connections between hypochondria and literary creation, a theme which is explored by several Italian eighteenth-century authors, among them Bernardino Ramazzini, Antonio Fracassini, Antonio Pujati, and Giovanni Verardo Zeviani. The study of the literati's hypochondria was very much in fashion in eighteenth-century Italy, as — on the other hand — at the peak of the grand tour craze it was fashionable, in the land of Dante, to declare oneself affected by the "English malady." The essay then focuses on the links between medicine and poetry with an examination of the literary creations of Italian and English poet-physicians who provided an exposition in verse of this 'disease of the learned.' Ultimately, science seems to confirm that the effort to defy mortality through knowledge and artistic achievement is a vain but unavoidable attempt, and that man in the age of reason suffers, more that ever before, from the unruly disease of an altered imagination.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.031 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".