A cultural, social, and medical history of migraine. 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 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, disabling-and yet often dismissed-disorders
will appeal to physicians, historians, scholars in medical
humanities, and people living with migraine alike.
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