Historical-anthropological insights on epilepsy from hippocrates to positivism
Journal Title: New Medicine - Year 2013, Vol 17, Issue 1
Abstract
The history of epilepsy appears to be mainly a progressive detachment from gods. Hippocratic medicine, for its part, stands out as the first technique (techne) able of unfettering men from the divine by explaining illness with natural and rational laws: the sacred disease, that is to say epilepsy, does not have divine characteristics, but rather a “rational structure” (physin) and “rational causes” (prophasin). Starting right from Hippocrates, we aim at providing a short history of epilepsy ending with the late-nineteenth-century perspective (especially Lombroso) which stated that epileptics didn”t have cerebral disorders or injuries, but they were characterized by a degeneration already affecting their ancestors and detectable by means of anthropometry and skull measurements.
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Fabio Gabrielli, Massimo Cocchi, Daniel Levi, Alfredo De Filippo, Giovanni Broggi
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