Nieva21’s Reviews > The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology > Status Update

I’m reading The Falling Sickness by Owsei Temkin and it’s fascinating. Across history, epilepsy wasn’t always seen as an illness — many cultures viewed seizures as sacred, meaningful, or a form of connection to something beyond the ordinary.

Only later did medicine redefine it strictly as pathology. It’s powerful to see how the meaning has shifted over time.