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The End of Epilepsy?

The End of Epilepsy?

A history of the modern era of epilepsy research 1860-2010

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Epilepsy is more than just a physical condition, the fact of simply having epileptic seizures, it has cultural, geographic and historical meaning and significance which go beyond that of a neurological disorder, and which defy a single perspective. The End of Epilepsy? is a beautifully illustrated, authoritative, and engaging history of medical developments during the modern era of epilepsy, which began with the introduction of Bromides and Hughlings-Jacksons definition ofepilepsy in 1860. This thought-provoking book comprehensively covers the definitions of and the attitudes to epilepsy over the past 150 years, and describes the bureaucracies surrounding the condition. It explores the technological advances, and the different management techniques, with antiepileptic drugs and surgery, which have been applied to epilepsy up to the present day. After presenting an overview both of the advances and improvements made, and also of the dark side which has cast shadows over medical and social progress, the authors then critically examine on-going research into new treatments for epilepsy, and provide an insight into the complex underpinnings of scientific and medical practice. They look forward to a time when the condition will no longer be, as Temkin put it, a paradigm of the suffering of both body and soul in disease.
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OUP Oxford
82887
9780198725909
9780198725909

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Publication date
2016
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
208
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 234
Weight (g)
480
  • What is epilepsy?; Attitudes; The pharmaceutical phoenix rises; Modern blockbusters; Resecting epilepsy; The dark side of epilepsy; Culs-de-sac and bureaucracies; Is the end of epilepsy in sight?; Appendix 1:: Dating epilepsy; Index;
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