Epilepsy in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot - Language, Stigma, and Mythology
Around 400 BC, Areatus -- one of Hippocrates’ pupils, proclaimed ‘epilepsy is an illness of various shapes and horrible’. Later, Areatus was also one of the people who called the disease ‘sacred’; according to them, a deity had sent a demon to possess the patient, or the patient had been cursed by t...
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University of Edinburgh
2021
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