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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy
    sub title: The National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic (1870-1895)
  name:
    name part: Lekka, Vasia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 209 p. 12 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a purely neurological disorder, in the second half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the world’s first neurological hospital, the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London, and on its leading figure, John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911). Through an analysis of the National Hospital’s medical records and a historical account of the course of epilepsy until our time, this book presents the nineteenth-century turn towards the scientific study of the human brain and the various political, social, ideological and epistemological implications of this major change. In spite of the recent trend of describing the history of mental illness, mental patients and psychiatric institutions, so far, neurology, epilepsy and epileptic patients have largely remained outside the scope of social historians, historians of medicine and social scientists. This book has the ambition to fill that gap.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: “Bodies That Matter”: Living in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 3: Unrolling the Archives’ Thread: Epilepsy and Epileptics at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic -- Chapter 4: Discovering Epilepsy and Epileptics in Victorian London -- Chapter 5: Epilepsy in the Age of Neurology -- Chapter 6: Towards the Twenty-first Century. Chapter 7: Epilogue -- Appendix -- Bibliography.
  note: by Vasia Lekka.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Public health
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Public Health
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 509
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 305
  identifier: 9783319062938
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06293-8
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    record creation date: 140619
    record change date: 20151204190656.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-06293-8