The Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy The National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic (1870-1895) /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06293-8 Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
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.