The falling sickness : a history of epilepsy from the greeks to the beginnings of Modern Neurology
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The falling sickness : a history of epilepsy from the greeks to the beginnings of Modern Neurology
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994
2nd ed., rev
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Description
Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars now returns to print in a new softcover edition.
Table of Contents
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
Part I: Antiquity
Chapter 1. Epilepsy: The Sacred Disease
Chapter 2. Epilepsy in Ancient Medical Science
Part II: The Middle Ages
Chapter 3. Epilepsy: The Falling Sickness
Chapter 4. Medieval Medical Theories
Part III: The Renaissance
Chapter 5. Theological, Philosophical, and Social Aspects
Chapter 6. Broadening Experience and Changing Theory
Part IV: The Great Systems and the Period of Enlightenment
Chapter 7. The Great Systems
Chapter 8. The Enlightenment
Part V: The Nineteenth Century (1800-1861)
Chapter 9. First Period: 1800-1833
Chapter 10. Second Period: 1833-1861
Part VI: The Nineteenth Century - The Age of Hughlings Jackson
Chapter 11. Jackson's Forerunners
Chapter 12. John Hughlings Jackson
Chapter 13. The End of the Falling Sickness?
Epilogue
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index of Personal Names
Index of Subjects
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