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Epilepsy in Bristol Secondary School Children
Author(s) -
ROSS EVAN M.,
EVANS DORIS
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
epilepsia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.687
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1528-1167
pISSN - 0013-9580
DOI - 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1972.tb04542.x
Subject(s) - plea , epilepsy , restructuring , psychiatry , everyday life , order (exchange) , psychology , sociology , medicine , political science , business , law , finance
The recent report of the British Advisory Committee on the Health and Welfare of Handicapped Persons entitled People with Epilepsy (1969) deserves study far beyond British shores as a framework within which to restructure our thinking about epilepsy. In their “Envoi” the Committee makes the comment that, “There were many areas of the life of those with convulsive disorders about which we would have liked to have factual information.” They made a firm plea for further clinical and social research. With the active support of the British Epilepsy Research Fund we are attempting in Bristol—a typical North European city—to answer some of their questions in order to find out more about the life and needs of school children with epilepsy.