Epilepsy: A Global Approach - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107035376 ISBN 13: 9781107035379

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy is Founder and Director of Neurokrish and Trimed, and Adjunct Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India.

Simon Shorvon is Professor in Clinical Neurology and Clinical SubDean at the Institute of Neurology, University College London, and Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London.

Steven Schachter is Professor of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107035376
• ISBN 13: 9781107035379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Krishnamoorthy Ennapadam S., Shorvon Simon D., Schachter Steven C.