LEADER 03637oam 22004214a 450 001 9910476762203321 005 20210915045005.0 010 $a1-4214-2949-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000007805360 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5727909 035 $a(OCoLC)1090496289 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse76381 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007805360 100 $a20180816d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMigraine$eA History /$fKatherine Foxhall 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2019. 210 4$d©2019. 215 $a1 online resource (293 pages) 311 08$a1-4214-2948-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aFor 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 methods that ordinary people and medical professionals have used to describe, explain, and treat migraine since the Middle Ages. Touching on classical theories of humoral disturbance and medieval bloodletting, Foxhall also describes early modern herbal remedies, the emergence of neurology, and evolving practices of therapeutic experimentation. Throughout the book, Foxhall persuasively argues that our current knowledge of migraine's neurobiology is founded on a centuries-long social, cultural, and medical history. This history, she demonstrates, continues to profoundly shape our knowledge of this complicated disease, our attitudes toward people who have migraine, and the sometimes drastic measures that we take to address pain. Migraine is an intimate look at how cultural attitudes and therapeutic practices have changed radically in response to medical and pharmaceutical developments. Foxhall draws on a wealth of previously unexamined sources, including medieval manuscripts, early-modern recipe books, professional medical journals, hospital case notes, newspaper advertisements, private diaries, consultation letters, artworks, poetry, and YouTube videos. Deeply researched and beautifully written, this fascinating and accessible study of one of our most common, disablingâe"and yet often dismissedâe"disorders will appeal to physicians, historians, scholars in medical humanities, and people living with migraine alike. 606 $aMigraine Disorders$xhistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 10$aMigraine Disorders$xhistory 676 $a616.8/4912 700 $aFoxhall$b Katherine$0969541 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476762203321 996 $aMigraine$92203259 997 $aUNINA