Book ID: CBB001551841

Headache: Through The Centuries (2012)

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Eadie, Mervyn J. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xic + 307 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Headache: Through the Centuries illuminates the history of headaches with a particular interest in how the disorder has been understood and treated since the earliest recorded accounts, dating from around 4000 BC. Different types of headache were being recognized as early as the 2nd century AD. Over the years, though, the classification of types of headache has changed so that headache patterns described in the past are often difficult to relate to present-day types of headache. Since that time, a great deal of material on the topic has become available, the full gamut of manifestations of the disorder has been described, and considerable insight into its mechanisms has been obtained, though no completely satisfactory explanation of the disorder has yet become available. Providing an extensive history and the development of our understanding of headache over the course of six millennia, Headache: Through the Centuries is thought-provoking and relevant reading for neurologists, medical historians, and anyone interested in headaches.

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Authors & Contributors
Macmillan, Malcolm
Wexler, Anna
Silbey, Susan S.
Walshe, Thomas M.
Stiles, Anne
Stahnisch, Frank W.
Concepts
Neurology
Brain
Medicine
Neurosciences
Neurophysiology
Pain
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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