Stories
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The epilepsy diagnosis
Epilepsy exists between the mind and body, something that Aparna Nair experienced for herself when she was diagnosed as a teenager.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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The first seizure
Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.
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Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
Catalogue
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Craniectomy for microcephalus : the later history of a case of excision of the hand-centre for epilepsy : a clinical lecture delivered at the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, November 19, 1890 / by W.W. Keen.
Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.Date: 1890- Videos
Blood and guts: a history of surgery. Part 1, Into the brain.
Date: 2008- Videos
Epilepsy / eye movements.
Date: Date unknown- Books
The neurological emergence of epilepsy : the national hospital for the paralysed and epileptic (1870-1895) / Vasia Lekka.
Lekka, Vasia, 1981-Date: [2015]- Books
Out of the blue / Susan Aldworth.
Aldworth, SusanDate: 2020