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BOOK REVIEW

The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860–2020)

Simon Shorvon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 750 pp., £64.99/$84.99 (online or hardcover). ISBN: 9781108903684 (online); ISBN: 9781108842617 (hardcover)

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