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Epilepsy knowledge at Margarethahemmet
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New neurology and medico-pedagogy shaped Swedish residential care and schooling for children with epilepsy, 1915–40.
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Institutional records expose class and category divisions built into care. Morningside's fee tables for the East and West (pauper) houses show class splitting libraries, fees and space even as patient printing was sold as a moral agent. Margarethahemmet's yearbooks show care that was both medical and educational, and a belief that only women were suited to teach the feeble-minded. Prison minute books and reports show chaplains and doctors brokering who counted as insane.
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Epilepsy knowledge at Margarethahemmet
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Margarethahemmet opened at Knivsta, outside Uppsala, in 1915.
The period under investigation extends from the opening of the epilepsy home in Knivsta, outside Uppsala in 1915, until the resignation of Henry Marcus as the home’s attendant doctor
Aim?
study the impact of new medical knowledge about epilepsy on the treatment and education of children with epilepsy in Sweden in the first half of the twenti
Key findings
Neurology split from psychiatry. Knowledge circulated through European networks; only women were thought suited to teach the ‘feeble-minded’. Care was both medical and educational, making children more ‘educable’ in staff eyes.
Methodology
The study reads Margarethahemmet yearbooks, Henry Marcus’s networks, and Slagsta teacher training against German literature.
Limitations
This is a Swedish institutional knowledge history, not a trial of modern anti-seizure drugs.
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