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1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; A Problem of Terminology; Contemporary Terminology; Ancient Terminology; Ancient Definitions Nonetheless? Monsters and Teratology; Retrospective Diagnoses for Bones, Art and Texts: Solution or Problem?; Geographic and Chronological Parameters; Sources; The Literary Sources: The House of Vovelle; Epigraphical and Papyrological Sources; The Unique Language of Artefacts; Remarkable Bones: Osteology; Frequency Lists, Ecology and Demography; A New Discipline? |
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Chapter 1 Conception, Birth and the 'Crucial' First DaysSurvivors? Handicapped Babies within a Regime of Massive Infant Mortality; Physicians and Parents in Search of Explanations; Biological Birth and Social Birth: A Crucial Interval?; Chapter 2 Mental and Intellectual Disabilities: Sane or Insane?; The Madness of Emperor Caligula; Four Historical Approaches to 'Mental Disorders': A Way Out of the Impasse?; Roman Legal Thought: A 'Practical' File; In Search of Learning Disorders and Intellectual Disabilities; The Jester Zercon; Augustine and the Problematisation of Intellectual Disabilities |
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Anecdotal Evidence for 'Mental Disorders'Classifications by Ancient Physicians; Phrenitis; Mania; Melancholia; Morosis, Moria and Anoia; Epilepsy; Ancient 'Psychotherapy'; Christians, Devils and Possession; Chapter 3 Blindness, a 'Fate Worse Than Death'?; Homer as 'Symbolic Blind Man'; Material Conditions; Theory and Practice of Ancient Ophthalmology; Ancient Authors on the Causes of Blindness; Blind and Visually Impaired People in Everyday Life; Dispersed Evidence; Roman Law; Blind People in Opinion and Thought; Christianity: Signs of Change? |
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Chapter 4 Deaf, Mute and Deaf-Mute: A Silent StoryThe Son of Croesus; Deaf-Mute, Mute, Deaf?; Medical and Demographic Explanations: Old and New; Deaf-Mutes in Roman Law; Echoes from Everyday Life; The Venerable Bede and the Christian Vision; Chapter 5 Speech Defects: Stammering History; Demosthenes: The Symbolic Stutterer?; Causes of Speech Defects: Antiquity and Now; In Search of Cases; The Emperor's Speech: Claudius as a Stutterer; Ancient Speech Therapy; Moses in the Jewish and Christian Traditions; Chapter 6 Mobility Impairments: History of Pain and Toil |
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Philip II of Macedonia and Other 'Crippled' KingsMobility Impairments Then and Now: Osteology and Demography; Ancient Physicians on Deformities, Fractures and Healing; A Glimpse of Daily Life; The Role of Christianity; Conclusions; Functioning and Labour; Capabilities and the Happiness Index: Exclusion or Inclusion?; The Happiness Index; Monsters and Anti-Physiognomics: A Path to Identity Formation?; Disabilities as Political Invective: Despised as a War Hero and Reviled as a Politician; Basic Positions; A History of Long Duration, but with Little Change?; New Paths |
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A Final Thought: The Emperor's New Clothes |
| Summary |
Almost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or physical disability and society tries to accommodate their needs. But what was the situation in the Roman world? Was there a concept of disability? How were the disabled treated? How did they manage in their daily lives? What answers did medical doctors, philosophers and patristic writers give for their problems? This, the first monograph on the subject in English, explores the medical and material contexts for disability in the ancient world, and discusses the chances of survival for those who were born with a handicap. It covers the various sorts of disability: mental problems, blindness, deafness and deaf-muteness, speech impairment and mobility impairment, and includes discussions of famous instances of disability from the ancient world, such as the madness of Emperor Caligula, the stuttering of Emperor Claudius and the blindness of Homer. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Medicine, Greek and Roman -- History.
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People with mental disabilities -- Rome -- History.
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People with disabilities -- Rome -- History.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. |
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. |
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Atlases. |
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MEDICAL -- Essays. |
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice. |
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy. |
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Medicine, Greek and Roman |
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People with disabilities |
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People with mental disabilities |
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Rome (Empire) |
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Laes, Christian. Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World : A Social and Cultural History. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2018 9781107162907 |
| ISBN |
9781316730096 (electronic bk.) |
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1316730093 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316678480 (electronic bk.) |
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1316678482 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107162907 (hardcover) |
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1107162904 (hardcover) |
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9781316615010 (paperback) |
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1316615014 (paperback) |
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