The Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy The National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic (1870-1895) /

• Main Author: Lekka, Vasia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 305
• Subjects: History.; Neurosciences.; Public health.; History of Science.; Public Health.

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 (183...

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.