Epilepsy : a global approach / edited by Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy, Simon Shorvon, Steven Schachter ; assistant editor Vivek Misra.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge medicine (Series)Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781139547918 (ebook)
- Epilepsy (Krishnamoorthy)
- 616.85/3 23
- RC372 .E65 2017
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This comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to epilepsy compares and contrasts scientific knowledge, clinical experience and social consciousness between Western and non-Western cultures, enhancing transcultural understanding and providing a paradigm for an integrative, truly global health policy for this disorder. Topics covered include pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of epilepsy; care models and traditional medical systems; service organization in resource-limited countries; cultural perspectives on consequences of epilepsy; social, anthropological, economic, political, and spiritual issues related to living with epilepsy; infectious and non-infectious causes and risk-factors; region-specific syndromes. Uniquely drawing attention to both a medical perspective and the burden of living with epilepsy, this is a must-have reference work for epileptologists, neurologists, epidemiologists, medical policymakers and health administrators in both the developed and developing world.
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