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Migraine: A History
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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, exp ...more
In Migraine, award-winning historian Katherine Foxhall reveals the ideas and methods that ordinary people and medical professionals have used to describe, exp ...more
Paperback, 292 pages
Published
June 18th 2019
by Johns Hopkins University Press
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Aug 22, 2019
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What was it like?
The cover intrigued me, I always felt it was black when a migraine came on or maybe it was a darkened room. I found this a topic that is talked about a lot, many people suffer from this, but I had not come across such a comprehensive and concise book written about this. The artwork on page 87 sums it up perfectly. This book explores so many theories from Wolff in the late 40s describing this as an inability to adap ...more
What was it like?
The cover intrigued me, I always felt it was black when a migraine came on or maybe it was a darkened room. I found this a topic that is talked about a lot, many people suffer from this, but I had not come across such a comprehensive and concise book written about this. The artwork on page 87 sums it up perfectly. This book explores so many theories from Wolff in the late 40s describing this as an inability to adap ...more

I listened to the Audible version narrated by Robin J. Sitten, whose reading I enjoyed. Before buying the audiobook, I suggest you listen to the sample, because the narrator reads this more like a science textbook—which I prefer when I must pay attention to the reading. Unlike Audible hard science books, this book has no references or illustrations that can be printed out prior to reading. I’m up on physiology and have read several medically-oriented books about migraine.
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I've read a number of medical histories and this was the most readable. As a migraine sufferer, I was the most engaged with this, but some of the histories I've read in the past have been difficult going. Despite this, the average migraine sufferer likely isn't going to pick up Foxhall's book, but for the curious reader it holds many wonders about an illness known in some ways for multiple millennia. Katherine Foxhall uses a feminist approach to give voice and witness to the experience of migrai
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Foxhall’s ‘Migraine’ is a comprehensive and insightful history of migraine and it’s treatment. It’s also not the most enjoyable read. The separate chapters don’t really build a sense of momentum or through line in the study of migraine.
This an impressive book, but if less pop science and more expanded academic paper. Thoughtful, worth reading, but you will have to push through some.
This an impressive book, but if less pop science and more expanded academic paper. Thoughtful, worth reading, but you will have to push through some.
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