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Epilepsy

Epilepsy

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Epilepsy

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Epilepsy

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London: Elsevier Limited

Journal title

The Lancet (British edition), 2017-05, Vol.389 (10083), p.1971

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English

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London: Elsevier Limited

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Contents

Why has epilepsy so often been associated with possession, prophecy, and mystery? Roy Porter cites “its shocking violence and the traditional impotence of the medical profession”, while Andrew Scull argues that epilepsy's position “on the borderlands of insanity” has generated powerful and competing natural and supernatural accounts of the conditio...

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Epilepsy

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1901357544

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1901357544

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ISSN

0140-6736

E-ISSN

1474-547X

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31292-8

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