title: Women and epilepsy in the Mediterranean cultures.
abstract: Women and epilepsy have been sharing many prejudices since the beginning of human history. Epileptic seizures have been often mistaken for hysteria and hysteria is mainly a disease of women: in the past, the physicians even proclaimed the existence of a form of epilepsy originated from the uterus. This paper briefly examines the relation women-epilepsy in the Mediterranean cultures through historical and literary examples.
authors.affiliation: International School of Neurological Sciences, Venezia, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vanzan Paladin
mesh_terms: D004827:Epilepsy / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D019083:Mediterranean Region