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020			_a9781108842617
060			_aWL 385
100	1		_aShorvon, Simon
245	1	4	_aThe idea of epilepsy : _bA medical and social history of epilepsy in the modern era (1860 - 2020)
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2023
300			_avii, 752p
520			_aEpilepsy 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.
650			_aNervous System Disorder
650			_aSezuire
650			_aSpasm _97946
650			_aEpilepsy
650			_aMedical History
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999			_c96135 _d96135