The Diseases You Only Get if You Believe in Them

You can’t get your genitals stolen in America. At least, not while they’re attached to your body. But people can in Nigeria, Benin, China, Singapore, and Hong Kong. This is the condition that sparked Bures’s interest and led to his new book "The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes."
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