{"product_id":"9780063477056","title":"The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction-and a Search for Relief","description":"Author: Tom Zeller Jr.\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780063477056\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 30 Sep 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\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\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\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\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":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542726070430,"sku":"HPC-9780063477056","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780063477056.jpg?v=1771566759","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780063477056","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}