Migraine : A History /
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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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2019]
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תוכן הענינים:
- 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.