Cluster Headache Community: Navigating Pain & Stigma

13/09/2024 26 min Episodio 197
Cluster Headache Community: Navigating Pain & Stigma

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In this episode of Headwise host Lindsay Weitzel, PhD interviews author and Professor of Sociology Joanna Kempner, PhD about her newly released book: Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine.

Listen in as Dr. Kempner explains what people with all sorts of pain and invisible illness can learn from her account of a group of patients with cluster headache who became their own "heroes" by developing medicine from psilocybin mushrooms and testing clinical grade protocols to relieve themselves and their families from excruciating pain.