title: [Social and cultural representations in epilepsy awareness].
abstract: Representations relating to epilepsy have evolved over the centuries, but the manifestations of epilepsy awaken archaic images linked to death, violence and disgust. Indeed, the generalised epileptic seizure symbolises a rupture with the surrounding environment, "informs it", through the loss of social codes which it causes. The social and cultural context, as well as medical knowledge, influences the representations of the disease. As a result, popular knowledge is founded on the social and cultural representations of a given era, in a given society.
authors.affiliation: Université de Lorraine, Faculté de sport, 30 rue du jardin botanique, 54600 Villers-les-Nancy, France. Electronic address: sophie.arborio@univ-lorraine.fr.
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arborio
mesh_terms: D004827:Epilepsy / Q000266:history*; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans
keywords: anthropologie; anthropology; culture; epilepsy; histoire; history; representation; représentation; society; société; épilepsie