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7 Sociocultural History of Epilepsy
Short Description Epilepsy is a chronic medical condition with many social aspects, documentations of which exist since earliest historical times. This chapter looks at a selection of topics comprising religion and superstitions, work and mobility, family, and legislation. In the broad public, superstitions and stigma have been slow to react to medical progresses. The many evolutions that moder...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1922
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-192203000-00029