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The Idea of Epilepsy - A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860-2020) (Hardcover)
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The Idea of Epilepsy - A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860-2020) (Hardcover)
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Epilepsy has a fascinating history. To the medical historian Oswei
Temkin it was 'the paradigm of the suffering of both body and soul
in disease'. It is justifiably considered a window on brain
function. And yet its story is more than simply a medical
narrative, but one influenced also by scientific, societal and
personal themes. Written for a medical and non-medical readership,
this book describes the major developments in epilepsy between
1860-2020, a turbulent era in which science dominated as an
explanatory model, medical theories and practices steered an
erratic course, and societal attitudes and approaches to epilepsy
fluctuated dramatically. In the middle of this maelstrom was the
person with epilepsy at the mercy of social attitudes and
legislation, and at times harmed as well as helped by medicine and
science. So entangled is the history that intriguingly, as an
entity, epilepsy may now be thought not even to exist.
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