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Temkin, Owsei, The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology, 2a ed. revisada, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971, xv + 467 pp.
- Resum
- This book presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. Extensive quotations from original sources and restraint in the use of modern medical terminology offer unusual insights into what past generations saw, thought and expressed. Yet this is also a developmental history of the disease and as such is guided by modern interests even where older opinions are contrary to those of the present day.
"A JAMA reviewer hailed the 1945 first edition of The Falling Sickness as a reference work with 'no historical rival' which 'occupies a seperate shelf in the reviewer's Library of Fame.' A revised second edition, published in 1971, increased the bibliography from a hefty 706 references to a weighty 1120. The number of footnotes, many in French, Latin, or Greek, multiplied from 1721 to 2073! The review of the second edition deemed Tempkin's intensely researched and well- organized historical work 'magnificient' . . . [The 1994 publication is] a facinating study of the history of one of the world's most intriguing maladies" [Andrew N. Wilner, M.D, 'Journal of the American Medical Association']. -- "The definitive account... Detailed, meticulous, and accurate... A thoroughly admirable and informative introduction to our knowledge of epilepsy in the Western world from antiquity to the early twentieth century". ['American Scientist'].
Contents: Antiquity -- Epilepsy: the sacred disease -- Epilepsy in ancient medical science -- The Middle Ages -- Epilepsy: the falling sickness -- Medieval medical theories -- The Renaissance -- Theological, philosophical, and social aspects -- Broadening experience and changing theory -- The great systems and the Period of Enlightenment -- The great systems -- The Enlightenment -- The Nineteenth Century (1800-1861) -- First period: 1800-1833 -- Second period: 1833-1861 -- The Nineteenth Century-the age of Hughlings Jackson -- Jackson's forerunners -- John Hughlings Jackson -- The end of the falling sickness?
- Matèries
- Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Història de la medicina
- Notes
- Reimpr.: 1979, 1994.
Ed. original: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1945, xv + 380 pp.
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