Psychosocial Aspect Epilepsy

İbrahim Balcıoğlu, Yıldırım B. Doğan

  • İbrahim Balcıoğlu: Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi
  • Yıldırım B. Doğan: Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi
  • Year : 1991
  • Vol : 7
  • Issue : 1
  •  Page : 105-107
Epilepsy is one of the oldest known diseases in human history. Hippocrates described the epileptic seizure in detail and stated its relevance to heredity. Throughout the Middle Ages, epilepsy and superstitions were mixed together, it was accepted as a disease of the devil, and patients with saree were excluded from the community. Even today, in many societies, the public is afraid and afraid of epileptic patients. However, there are also epileptics in history who have ruled the state or achieved fame in science and art; Alexander the Great, Julies Caesar, Pctro the Great, Socrates, Pascal, Dostoevsky, Flaubert.

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Selcuk Medical Journal
1991, Vol. 7 (1)
ISSN: 1017-6616
E-ISSN: 2149-8059
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