{"product_id":"the-headache-the-science-of-a-most-confounding-affliction-and-a-search-for-relief-tom-zeller-jr-9780063477056","title":"The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction-and a Search for Relief","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Required reading for anyone with a head.\"-Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"[The Headache] weaves together history, biology, a survey of current research, testimony from patients, and an agonizing account of Zeller's own suffering. . . If there's a lesson here, it's that pain resists mastery, but understanding, however incomplete, can offer its own form of relief.\"-New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom blinding migraines to severe headache disorders known as \"clusters,\" chronic head pain affects 40% of the population, many of them suffering in silence. Finally, The Headache reveals the science behind a group of disorders that is as much a curse as a cultural punchline, and leads to key insights into the nature of pain itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGuided by his own decades-long struggle with cluster headaches, veteran science journalist Tom Zeller Jr.'s journey into headache science is at once intimate and panoramic. He visits cutting-edge clinics; interviews dozens of doctors, neurologists, and fellow headache patients; participates in clinical trials for multi-million-dollar new medicines; and even experiments with psilocybin in search of relief. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Zeller traces the longer arc of mystery around headaches, from prehistoric skull surgery to Virginia Woolf's assertion that, in the throes of a migraine, \"language runs dry,\" to reveal how headaches became one of the most under-researched afflictions in medicine-and how that is slowly starting to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith warmth, wit, and infectious curiosity, Zeller's search for the origins of his own headaches becomes a journey into the inner workings of the human nervous system, and an invaluable witness to one of the most maligned conditions known to medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Zeller Jr.","offers":[{"title":"As New","offer_id":48675776528627,"sku":"9990002942488","price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780063477056.jpg?v=1773898352","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-headache-the-science-of-a-most-confounding-affliction-and-a-search-for-relief-tom-zeller-jr-9780063477056","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}