From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.

A woman on the ground with artificially induced convulsions. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière : service de M. Charcot / par Bourneville et P. Regnard.

The ‘epileptic’ in art and science

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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science