Migraine

‘A mine of treasures a source of visions a microcosm of human experience and suffering the philosopher’s stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement’ Sunday Telegraph. Migraine is an age-old – the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years – and often debilitating condition affecting a ‘substantial minority’ of the population across the globe. In Migraine Oliver Sacks offers at once a medical account of its occurrence and management; an exploration of its physical physiological and psychological underpinnings and consequences; and a meditation on the nature and experience of health and illness.