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The Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy
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LEKKA, Vasia

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 acco…

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ISBN/ISSN
978-3-319-06293-8
Collation
XIII, 209
Series Title
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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