Introduction
(1) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Abstract The aim of this chapter is to serve as an introduction to the main subject and the basic questions…
Unrolling the Archives’ Thread: Epilepsy and Epileptics at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic
(1) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Abstract The third chapter of the book proceeds to the detailed presentation and analysis of the medical files of John…
Epilepsy in the Age of Neurology
(1) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Abstract This chapter focuses on the epistemological approach and analysis of the medical files of John Hughlings Jackson’s epileptic patients,…
Towards the Twenty-First Century
(1) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Abstract The aim of this chapter is to reflect on epilepsy’s and epileptics’ condition and, more generally, on medicine’s status…
Discovering Epilepsy and Epileptics in Victorian London
(1) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Abstract This chapter focuses on the sociological analysis of the medical files of John Hughlings Jackson’s epileptic patients, who were…
“Bodies That Matter”: Living in the Nineteenth Century
(1) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Abstract This chapter aims at briefly presenting the specific historical context of epilepsy’s emergence as a neurological disorder, during the…
