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Featured Book for Lectures: All in My Head |
All in My Head is a black comedy, a candid memoir and an informed journalistic report. It's about my often absurd struggles to try to cure (but ultimately manage) one long 15-year migraine (now diagnosed as "chronic daily headache"), through odysseys through the extremes of both Western and alternative medicine.
Meanwhile, the book stops to address different "big picture" issues involved, such as framing chronic pain as a "women's issue." This book is the first one written on "chronic daily headache," a constant or near-constant headache, that affects about 4-5 percent of the population (and about 10 percent of women of childbearing age).
SALON.COM (4-05): "Her book connects the dots on this issue of women and chronic pain in a way nobody else has done." THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS (5-06) describes the book as "exhaustively researched, comprehensive in its cultural analysis, effectively organized, engagingly written, and, well, a riot." Read more reviews and blurbs hereOrder the book here
Created on 02/03/2005 02:04 PM by carolsim
Updated on 12/09/2007 02:19 AM by paulakamen
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Australian public radio (ABC) appearances in April and May |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 04/22/2008 05:55 PM
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Speaking on "Finding Iris Chang" book: April 21, 2008, "Late Night Live" hosted by Phillip Adams.To listen, click text here.
Speaking on "All in My Head Book": May 9, 2008, "Life Matters" with Richard Aedy. To listen, click text here
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March 14 "intergenerational" feminism panel |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 03/03/2008 10:53 PM
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At Eastern Michigan University at 7:30 PM in Detroit/Ann Arbor area, for the annual conference of the Michigan Women's Studies Association. Will appear with the regular members of "Womengirlsladies," a traveling panel, including former Planned Parenthood national president & CEO Gloria Feldt, and writers Hannah Seligson (substituting for Courtney E. Martin) and Kristal Brent Zook.
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NPR appearances on headache/NYT blog |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 02/21/2008 06:20 PM
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I was a guest on "On Point," out of WBUR-Boston on February 20, 2008. This was probably the best radio show I've ever witnessed on the topic of headache, mainly because of guest Dr. Elizabeth Loder of Brigham and Womens' Hospital in Boston, who was knowledgable, humble, helpful,political, and realistically recognizing challenges of the toughest cases. Also articulate was Madison resident, Martha Gaie, migraineur since 1984.
Also check out the "Talk of the Nation" segment on migraines, where I appeared, Feb. 12, also with novelist and guet blogger Siri Hustvedt, and another doctor.
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Paula is Guest Blogger on ONLINE New York Times |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 02/11/2008 01:57 AM
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For a special feature in February on "Migraine." But I'm writing on chronic daily headache, mostly. Three other bloggers are novelist Siri Hustvedt, doctor Oliver Sacks and rocker Jeff Tweedy.
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New York Times belittles women's 'nebulous' chronic pain |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 01/19/2008 07:27 PM
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| Read my critique of Alex Berenson's 1/14/08 questioning of fibromyalgia as a "real disease" in my latest blog entry on Women in Media and News' group media-watchdog blog. |
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