书目名称 | The Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy | 副标题 | The National Hospita | 编辑 | Vasia Lekka | 视频video | | 概述 | First historical account on National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic.Presents the nineteenth-century turn towards the neurological study of the human brain and the various political, social, | 丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 implications of this major change. In spite of the recent trend of describing the history of mental illness, mental patients and psychiatric institutions, so far, neurology, epilepsy and epileptic patients have largely remained outside the scope of social historians, historians of medicine and social scientists. This book has the ambition to fill that gap.. | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | 关键词 | History of Epilepsy; History of Neurology; Human Brain; Industrial Revolution; John Hughlings Jackson’s | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06293-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-35363-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-06293-8Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 | issn_series | 0068-0346 | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 |
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