By Vasia Lekka
This e-book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a in simple terms neurological disease, within the moment half the 19th century. It makes a speciality of the world’s first neurological health center, the nationwide health facility for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London, and on its best determine, John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911). via an research of the nationwide Hospital’s scientific files and a ancient account of the process epilepsy till our time, this e-book provides the nineteenth-century flip in the direction of the medical learn of the human mind and some of the political, social, ideological and epistemological implications of this significant switch. even with the hot development of describing the heritage of psychological disorder, psychological sufferers and psychiatric associations, to date, neurology, epilepsy and epileptic sufferers have mostly remained outdoor the scope of social historians, historians of drugs and social scientists. This booklet has the ambition to fill that gap.
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