Migraine a history
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press
2019, 2019
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| Collection: | National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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, 1980-1987