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Book review
Comprehensive care for people with epilepsy. Current problems in epilepsy, volume 16
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Edited by Margarete Pfäfflin, Robert T Fraser, Rupprecht Thorbecke, Ulrich Specht, and Peter Wolf (Pp 375, £60.00). Published by John Libbey, London, 2001. ISBN 0-86196-610-4
Epilepsy is beyond question a condition with unique psychosocial consequences for which any package of care needs to acknowledge the wider effects of the condition rather than simply addressing the clinical issues. Advocating programmes of comprehensive care for epilepsy is therefore rather like advocating motherhood and apple pie. One is rather doubtful that reading this book gets one much further than this statement.
The book is the product of a …