{"product_id":"the-headache-tom-zeller-jr","title":"The Headache (Tom Zeller Jr.)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Required reading for anyone with a head.\"-Mary Roach, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eStiff \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eFuzz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eThe Headache\u003c\/em\u003e] 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.\"-\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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, \u003cem\u003eThe Headache\u003c\/em\u003e 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\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\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\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTom Zeller Jr. \u003c\/strong\u003eis co-founder and editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eUndark,\u003c\/em\u003e a nonprofit digital magazine exploring the intersection of science and society. Previously, he was a reporter and columnist at the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, an editor at large for \u003cem\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, and a Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He lives in Lolo, Montana. \u003cem\u003eThe Headache\u003c\/em\u003e is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 336 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66074279706973,"sku":"K098144191","price":24.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9814419100001A.jpg?v=1790668188","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-headache-tom-zeller-jr","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}