The Falling Sickness (Softshell Books) [Kindle Edition] Author: Owsei Temkin | Language: English | ISBN:
B004QGYGFE | Format: PDF, EPUB
The Falling Sickness
Download electronic versions of selected books The Falling Sickness (Softshell Books) [Kindle Edition] for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars now returns to print in a new softcover edition. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation The Falling Sickness (Softshell Books) [Kindle Edition]
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- Print Length: 492 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0801848490
- Publisher: JHUP; Revised edition (December 29, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004QGYGFE
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This is the first book I read about epilepsy. I am epileptic and I studied history. I couldn't take the medical texts because I was living them through my several appointments and tests at the hospital. But this lyrical and thoughtful and factual exposition on epilepsy was the most comforting piece of writing I have read concerning epilepsy. I've had it on my book-shelf for 20 years and I go back to its well-worn pages often. I should have written this review long, long ago. Thank you Mr or Dr Temkin.
Regards,
Terry Tracy
By T. Tracy
I've had epilepsy now for over 45 years. It caused, despite high qualifications, loss of marriage, career and home.
It isn't the duty of a medical researcher to effect social change. He provides fact, not superstition. It's for the activist to do just this: agitate, endlessly, for change. Use this work as source material for the cause, not as a substitute for action of your own.
Ask: why is this subject so rarely mentioned? Is it shameful, embarrassing? Why should it, any more than migraine? There's only one response: agitate,day by day. I did, and do, just that here in the UK. I had a deliberately ambiguous badge made, and wear it still in the open: Fit for Life with Epilepsy. This is 'in your face' agitation. It's necessary. How else do you counteract millennia of stupidity and prejudice? Only one person, signicantly, has complained about the badge: the representative of a major epilepsy charity! The complaint was rejected, three times. I still wear the badge. I'm part of society, reject us as it will, and I want society to see so. I'm here, whether they like it or not.
By M.I.
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