Archive for July, 2016

Your illness is not your fault

Posted by sarcozona on July 11, 2016. No comments.

“I have to live inside of this body that sometimes hurts itself.”

Migraine Art

Posted by sarcozona on July 11, 2016. No comments.

Migraine Art #068 by Migraine Art Via Flickr: From new book Migraine Art by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson

Success and Chronic Illness

Posted by sarcozona on July 10, 2016. No comments.

Success and Chronic Illness It is hard it is hard it is hard.

The migraine interactive kind

Posted by sarcozona on July 10, 2016. No comments.

How did psychological theories come this far in migraine medicine? Judy Segal has argued that the explanatory power and popularity of the migraine personality could be attributed to its expansiveness — the migraine personality could describe almost anyone. The migraine personality became what Ian Hacking refers to as an “interactive kind.” Interactive kinds are categories […]

Make-up history is history

Posted by sarcozona on July 9, 2016. 2 comments.

Migraine Art

Posted by sarcozona on July 9, 2016. No comments.

Migraine Art #122 by Migraine Art Via Flickr: From new book Migraine Art by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson

Just get me a fainting couch

Posted by sarcozona on July 9, 2016. No comments.

He worried that so many migrainous women sought diagnostic tests and spent so much money on doctors when doctors had so few effective migraine treatments. The more appropriate role for the physician, he argued, would be to spend time with the patient, “in talking over her life problems and in showing her how to live […]