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Representing epilepsy : myth and matter /
At least 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. This book seeks to understand the epileptic body as a literary or figurative device intelligible beyond a medical framework. The author argues that neurological discourse from the late nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century is as m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Representations (Liverpool, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From Hippocrates to Shakespeare and Dickens : epilepsy's entry into "the circuit of culture"
- Hystericity and hauntings : the females and the feminised
- Notes from the borderlands : repressing the returned
- The colonies
- Because you're "you know. That way"
- Where to next : the ongoing story of epilepsy.