Migraine a history / Katherine Foxhall.

Author/creator Foxhall, Katherine
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Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Description1 electronic resource (xiv, 276 pages)
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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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Issued in other formPrint version: Migraine Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019] 9781421429489
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