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| Titre : |
The continuing evolution of “Cerebral Palsy” |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Peter L. Rosenbaum ; Bernard Dan |
| Année de publication : |
2020 |
| Article en page(s) : |
p. 387-388 |
| Note générale : |
doi.org/10.1016/j.rehab.2019.09.008 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Résumé : |
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a relatively recent concept in the history of medicine. Famously, a few pre-scientific feature descriptions have been interpreted as possible references to congenital deformity; examples are Homer's characterization of Hephaistos as god of the “crook foot” (Iliad, XXI, 331) or the title character's self-description in William Shakespeare's King Richard III (I, 1) as “Cheated of feature by dissembling nature/Deformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time/Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,/And that so lamely and unfashionable/That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.” However, these descriptions primarily serve literary purposes and have limited diagnostic value. (Incidentally, analysis of the remains of the historic Richard III suggested no signs of cerebral palsy but slight adolescent-onset idiopathic scoliosis [1]). As with all medical diagnoses, CP is a construct aiming to describe, explain and capture reality in keeping with current knowledge and understanding, in a way that is thought to be useful to the person with the diagnosis [2]. On the other hand, there are limitations to “diagnosis”, and an account of the person with that diagnosis is a necessary complement to the label itself [3]. |
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in Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine > Vol. 63, n°5 (Octobre 2020) . - p. 387-388
[article] The continuing evolution of “Cerebral Palsy” [texte imprimé] / Peter L. Rosenbaum ; Bernard Dan . - 2020 . - p. 387-388. doi.org/10.1016/j.rehab.2019.09.008 Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine > Vol. 63, n°5 (Octobre 2020) . - p. 387-388
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Cerebral palsy (CP) is a relatively recent concept in the history of medicine. Famously, a few pre-scientific feature descriptions have been interpreted as possible references to congenital deformity; examples are Homer's characterization of Hephaistos as god of the “crook foot” (Iliad, XXI, 331) or the title character's self-description in William Shakespeare's King Richard III (I, 1) as “Cheated of feature by dissembling nature/Deformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time/Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,/And that so lamely and unfashionable/That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.” However, these descriptions primarily serve literary purposes and have limited diagnostic value. (Incidentally, analysis of the remains of the historic Richard III suggested no signs of cerebral palsy but slight adolescent-onset idiopathic scoliosis [1]). As with all medical diagnoses, CP is a construct aiming to describe, explain and capture reality in keeping with current knowledge and understanding, in a way that is thought to be useful to the person with the diagnosis [2]. On the other hand, there are limitations to “diagnosis”, and an account of the person with that diagnosis is a necessary complement to the label itself [3]. |
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The continuing evolution of “Cerebral Palsy” in Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine, Vol. 63, n°5 (Octobre 2020)
