Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability

Examining migraines in children and the socially disabling effects that chronic pain can have, this book uses medical, political and cultural discourse to convey a sense of invisible disability in child migraine sufferers and its subsequent oppression within hegemonic educational and medical policy. Interviews and testimonials from a range of historical, literary, and medical sources are analysed in a child-centred context, along with representations of child pain within literature, art and popular culture. The book will appeal to scholars in childhood studies, children's rights, literary and visual culture, disability studies and medical humanities.

Susan E. Honeyman is Professor of English at University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA.

List of Figures Preface: a Note to Readers Acknowledgements Introduction - Migraine as Invisible Disability - A History of Pediatric Pain and the Politics of Pill Culture - Materia Medica - Testifying Against Trigemony - Visibility Machines and Pain Proxies Conclusion Afterword: Scars (a Migraine Diary) Appendix References Index