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N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - The neurological emergence of epilepsythe National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic (1870-1895) /
AU  - Lekka, Vasia,
VL  - volume 305
CN  - RC372
ID  - 723341
KW  - Epilepsy
KW  - Epileptics
SN  - 9783319062938
SN  - 331906293X
TI  - The neurological emergence of epilepsythe National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic (1870-1895) /
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