Archive for July, 2016

Disquiet

My head and the whole universe ache. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet  (via heureun)

Priorities

I’ve read more papers on my illness than I have on my PhD topic. I’m never going to graduate, am I?

Headache medicine’s problems with legitimacy persist despite the “discovery” of a neurobiological mechanism underlying migraine. For while the emphasis on the brain does somewhat mitigate migraine’s association with psychosomatic, feminized personalities, locating migraine in the brain also managed to inscribe gendered cultural assumptions about the personalities of headache patients into the physical structure of their […]

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