Migraine: A History (Paperback)

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology and Names
Chapter 1. Introduction: Programmed In?
Chapter 2. The "Beating of Hammers": Classical and Medieval Approaches to Hemicrania
Chapter 3. "Take Housleeke, and Garden Wormes": Migraine Medicine in the Early Modern Household
Chapter 4. A "Deadly Tormenting Megrym": Expanding Markets and Changing Meanings
Chapter 5. "The Pain Was Very Much Relieved and She Slept": Gender and Patienthood in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 6. "As Sharp as If Drawn with Compasses": Victorian Vision, Men of Science, and the Making of Modern Migraine
Chapter 7. "A Shower of Phosphenes": Twentieth-Century Stories and the Medical Uses of History
Chapter 8. "Happy Hunting Ground": Conceptual Fragmentation and Medication in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 9. "If I Could Harness Pain": The Migraine Art Competitions, 1980-1987
Chapter 10. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index