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Psychedelic Evangelist
By Brendan Borrell
“These are serious allegations that need to be investigated,” said Joanna Kempner, a medical sociologist at Rutgers University who reviewed the complaint for The New York Times. The clashes at Hopkins, she added, mirror a broader debate in the field over “blurring the lines between empirical research and spiritual practice.”
“There Has Never Been a Better Time to Have a Headache”
By Tom Zeller
As Joanna Kempner, an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University, nimbly laid out in her 2014 book “Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health,” migraine headaches in particular have been given inadequate consideration by the medical and scientific establishments. . . And while those diagnoses have now mostly been discarded by the medical establishment, she suggests that gender biases in headache treatment have not.”
“Is “Experimental” Just Another Way For Your Insurer to Deny Coverage? Medical Experts Wonder, Too.”
By Deb Gordon
Wold, a Medicare enrollee, pays as much as $2,400 out of pocket for oxygen during a cycle of headaches, which typically lasts for three months. Kempner thinks Medicare should pay.
“A new treatment may halt cluster headaches. But some say psychedelic drugs are the real answer.”
By Katherine Ellison
Clusterbusters’ out-of-the-box efforts on behalf of its pain-wracked members are “the stuff of movies,” said Rutgers University sociologist Joanna Kempner, who is writing a book on the group.
We Should Talk about That with the two Jess(es)
Understanding Migraine Stigma with Joanna Kempner and Eileen Brewer, Feb 15, 2021.
The Rooster, July 15, 2019.
Janet Steen, Longreads, February, 2019.
Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines
In this Distillations podcast from the Science History Institute, reporter Anne Hoffman traces the history of migraine, hoping to discover clues about a treatment that actually works for her. Joanna Kempner helps her understand the migraine stigma, and the resurgent interest in psychedelic treatment for migraine and cluster headache.
Do you have a migraine personality?
Natural Md Radio with Aviva RommTreating Migraines: How Women are Harmed by Gendered Medical Language
Catapult, February 6, 2018.
The Current, Candian Broadcasting Company. June 17, 2017
Philadelphia Inquirer, November 18, 2016
The Guardian, November 17, 2016
Independent, September 15, 2016
How did a painful and disabling disorder come to be seen as a symptom of femininity? Laurie Taylor talks to Joanna Kempner on Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4, January 28, 2015
