Migraine : a history /

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For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told. In Migraine, award-winning historian Katherine Foxhall reveals the ideas and metho...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foxhall, Katherine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Series:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
Migraine > History.
Migraine Disorders > history
Migraine > Histoire.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Migraine
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : programmed in?
  • The "beating of hammers" : classical and medieval approaches to hemicrania
  • "Take housleeke, and garden wormes" : migraine medicine in the early modern household
  • A "deadly tormenting megrym" : expanding markets and changing meanings
  • "The pain was very much relieved and she slept" : gender and patienthood in the nineteenth-century
  • "As sharp as if drawn with compasses" : Victorian vision, men of science and the making of modern migraine
  • "A shower of phosphenes" : twentieth-century stories and the medical uses of history
  • "Happy hunting ground" : conceptual fragmentation and medication in the
  • Twentieth century
  • "If I could harness pain" : the migraine art competitions, 1980-7.

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