"Elusive Childhood examines how discourse touched by the identity politics of youth might be revised for fairness. Susan Honeyman demonstrates this potential by reading representations of children from throughout the Modern episteme in works of such writers as Henry James, Edith…
1. Migraine as invisible disability -- 2. A history of pediatric pain and the politics of pill culture -- 3. Materia medica and literary migraine -- 4. Testifying against trigemony -- 5. Visibility machines and pain proxies.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Permissions -- Preface: A note to readers -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Migraine as invisible disability -- 2 A history of pediatric pain and the politics of pill culture -- 3 Materia medica an…
In the twenty-first century there is increasing global recognition of pain relief as a basic human right. However, as Susan Honeyman argues in this new take on child pain and invisible disability, such a belief has historically been driven by adult, ideological needs, whereas th…
