Disabilities in Roman antiquity : disparate bodies, a capite ad calcem /

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This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic from head to toe: mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorder, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteolo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Laes, Christian (Editor ), Goodey, C. F. (Editor ), Rose, Martha L., 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; v. 356.
Temas:
Medicine, Greek and Roman > History.
People with mental disabilities > Rome > History.
People with disabilities > Rome > History.
Medical archaeology.
Culture.
Disabled Persons > history
Roman World
Culture
History, Ancient
Médecine grecque et romaine > Histoire.
Personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle > Rome > Histoire.
Personnes handicapées > Rome > Histoire.
Archéologie médicale.
culture note.
MEDICAL > History.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
People with disabilities.
People with mental disabilities.
Behinderung
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Approaching Disabilities a Capite ad Calcem. Hidden Themes in Roman Antiquity / Christian Laes, C.F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose
  • Mental States, Bodily Dispositions and Table Manners: a Guide to Reading 'Intellectual' Disability from Homer to late Antiquity / C.F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose
  • Psychiatric Disability in the Galenic Medical Matrix / Patricia A. Clark, M. Lynn Rose
  • Two Historical Case Histories of Acute Alcoholism in the Roman Empire / Danielle Gourevitch, with the collaboration of Dr. Gilles Demigneux. Drunkenness, Alcoholism and Ancient History / Christian Laes
  • Exploring Visual Impairment in Ancient Rome / Lisa Trentin
  • A Nexus of Disability in Ancient Greek Miracle Stories: a Comparison of Accounts of Blindness from the Asklepieion in Epidauros and the Shrine of Thecla in Seleucia / Cornelia B. Horn
  • Silent History? Speech Impairment in Roman Antiquity / Christian Laes
  • Monstrous Births and Retrospective Diagnosis: The Case of Hermaphrodites in Antiquity / Lutz Graumann
  • What's in a Monster? Pliny the Elder, Teratology and Bodily Disability / Bert Gevaert, Christian Laes
  • A King Walking with Pain? On the Textual and Iconographical Images of Philip II and Other Wounded Kings / Evelyn Samama
  • Disparate Lives or Disparate Deaths? Post-Mortem Treatment of the Body and the Articulation of Difference / Emma-Jayne Graham
  • Disparate Bodies in Ancient Artefacts: the Function of Caricature and Pathological Grotesques among Roman Terracotta Figurines / Alex Mitchell.

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