A Disease Once Sacred

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A Disease Once Sacred
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Publisher : John Libbey Eurotext
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ISBN-10 : 0861966082
ISBN-13 : 9780861966080
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Book Synopsis A Disease Once Sacred by : Mervyn J. Eadie

Book excerpt: This text offers a history of ideas concerning epilepsy. The book takes as its points of departure the modern understanding of epilepsy and of epileptic seizures, and uses this knowledge as a yardstick against which to interpret the thinking of the past.


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