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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第一著者: Foxhall, Katherine (著者)
フォーマット: 電子媒体 eBook
言語:英語
出版事項: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
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目次:
  • 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.