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Epilepsy
A Hanscomb & L Hughes
Cassell, 2002
Epilepsy Explained: a book for people who want to know more about epilepsy.
Ulrich Altrup, Christian E. Elger, Markus Reuber
Medicine Explained Publishing, 2005
ISBN: 3980963810
Available to buy from Dr Markus Reuber at Dept of Neurology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, by sending a cheque for £16.50 made payable to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Any income will go to the research fund for clinical (non-laboratory) epilepsy research.
Coping with epilepsy
F Marshall and P Crawford
Sheldon Press, 2006 (2nd ed)
ISBN 0859699765
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Understanding Epilepsy
S Shorvon & M Walker
Family Doctor Publications. Updated 2006.
ISBN 1903474396
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Epilepsy: The Facts
A Hopkins & R Appleton
Oxford University Press 2nd Edition 1996
ISBN 01926 25489
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Epilepsy at your Fingertips
B Chappell & P Crawford
Class Publishing 2nd edition 2001
ISBN 1859590624
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Getting on with Epilepsy
S Hollins, J Bernal, A Thacker, L Kopper
Gaskell / Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1999
ISBN 1901242390
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Epilepsy: Complementary and Alternative Treatments
Epilepsy: Complementary and alternative treatments
Dr Sallie Baxendale
Sheldon Press, 2012
ISBN: 978 1 84709 154 3
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Epilepsy in our Words: personal accounts of living with seizures (Brainstorms series)
(ed) SC Schachter
Oxford University Press 2008
ISBN 9780195330885
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Epilepsy in our View: Stories from friends and families of people living with epilepsy (Brainstorms series)
(ed) SC Schachter
Oxford University Press 2008
ISBN 9780195330878
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Epilepsy in our Lives: women living with epilepsy (Brainstorms series)
(eds) SC Schachter, KB Krishnamurthy & DT Combs Cantrell
Oxford University Press 2008
ISBN 9780195330861
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Epilepsy in our World: stories of living with seizures from around the world (Brainstorms series)
(ed) SC Schachter & LF Andermann
Oxford University Press 2008
ISBN 9780195330892
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Me, Myself, My Memories
Gillian Shaw
Author Publishing Ltd 2005
ISBN 1 898030 54 5
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DVDs
The Lost Prince (2003)
Directed by Stephen Poliakoff
Format: PAL, Region 2
90 mins.
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Children and parents
Epilepsy: the Detective's Story
P Rogan & D Hollomby
2005
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What’s up with Wendy? Medikidz explain epilepsy
Dr Kim Chilman-Blair and John Taddeo
Peer reviewed by Prof. Helen Cross
Medikidz
ISBN 9781906935009
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My brother and sister have epilepsy - this is my story
Dr Richard Appleton and Dr Annette Hames
Esai Ltd
ISBN 9780956092137
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Epilepsy and your child
R Appleton, B Chappell & M Beirne
(At your fingertips series)
Class Publishing 2004
ISBN 1859591086
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Coping with Epilepsy in Children and Young People
Susan Elliot Wright
Sheldon Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84709-046-1
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Epilepsy on our Terms: stories by children with seizures and their parents (Brainstorms series)
(eds) SC Schachter, GD Montouris & JM Pellock
Oxford University Press 2008
ISBN 9780195330908
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Professionals
Epilepsy - Fast Facts
M Brodie, S Schachter, P Kwan
Health Press 5th edition 2012
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Epilepsy: Questions and Answers
YM Hart & JW Sander
Merit Publishing 2008 (2nd ed)
ISBN 9781873413876
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Women and Epilepsy (Medical Pocketbooks)
T Betts & P Crawford
Martin Dunitz 1998
ISBN 1853176443
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Epilepsy in our Experience: accounts of health care professionals (Brainstorms series)
(ed) SC Schachter
Oxford University Press 2008
ISBN 9780195330915
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