Preface; I On a History of Epilepsy; II Outline of the Chapters; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Story of a Picture; 1.2 Epilepsy Today; 1.3 Some Thoughts Concerning Methodology; References; Chapter 2: "Bodies That Matter": Living in the Nineteenth Century; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Living in the Nineteenth Century; 2.3 "Bodies That Matter"; 2.4 Epilepsy and Epileptics up to the Nineteenth Century; References; Chapter 3: Unrolling the Archives' Thread: Epilepsy and Epileptics at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic

3.1 The Foundation of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic3.2 1870-1879; 3.3 1880-1885; 3.4 1886-1890; 3.5 1891-1895; 3.6 The 'National Society for the Employment of Epileptics'; References; Chapter 4: Discovering Epilepsy and Epileptics in Victorian London; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Epileptic Patients' Gender; 4.3 Epileptic Patients' Age; 4.4 Epileptic Patients' Marital Status; 4.5 Epileptic Patients' Occupation; 4.6 Epileptic Patients' Address of Residence; 4.7 Epileptic Patients' Lived Experience; 4.8 Towards a Sociology of Epilepsy and Epileptics; References

Chapter 5: Epilepsy in the Age of Neurology5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Entering the National Hospital; 5.3 Staying at the National Hospital; 5.4 Curing the Epileptic Body; 5.5 Exiting the National Hospital; 5.6 Examining the Epileptic Body; 5.7 Turning the Gaze to the Human Body; 5.8 Introducing a New Physiology of the Human Brain; 5.9 Putting the Population Under the Microscope; References; Chapter 6: Towards the Twenty-First Century; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Epilepsy in the Twentieth Century; 6.3 Epileptic Patients in the Twentieth Century; 6.4 Towards the Twenty-First Century; References; Epilogue