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Volume 68 - July 2024

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Book Review

Article

  • Institutional care and education: circulation of knowledge about epilepsy in Sweden 1915–40

  • Johanna Ringarp
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 September 2024, pp. 325-340
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  • This article focuses on the circulation of knowledge about epilepsy in Sweden between 1915 and 1940. During the period medical research on epilepsy increased, which simultaneously brought a new degree of specialisation and distinction between branches of medicine. The aim of this article is to study the impact of new medical knowledge about epilepsy on the treatment and education of children with epilepsy in Sweden. In order to concretise the aim, the study focuses on the asylum Margarethahemmet. The key source material consists of Margarethahemmet’s annual reports and yearbooks. The minutes of the meetings of the Swedish General Association for the Care of the Feebleminded and Epileptic for the period 1915–1938 have been used as supplementary material. In order to trace the impact of medical discoveries on Margarethahemmet’s operations, contemporary scientific articles, mostly from Germany, have also been used. The article demonstrates how new research and new knowledge was sought internationally and nationally, to provide doctors and special teachers at the asylum with a proper knowledge about education, care and treatment for children with epilepsy. The increased understanding of the disease directly impacted the ability of a stigmatized group – people with epileptic disorder – to actively participate in society on the same terms as others.

Corrigendum

  • Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots – CORRIGENDUM

  • Hohee Cho, Martin Robert
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    09 December 2024, p. 341
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  • MDH volume 68 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    04 October 2024, p. f1
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  • MDH volume 68 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    09 December 2024, p. f1
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