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844399
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Laes, Christian
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Disabilities and the disabled in the Roman world : : a social and cultural history /\ Christain Laes.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :: Cambridge University Press,, 2018.
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, ©2018
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1 online resource (xi, 238 pages)
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1316678482
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: 1316730093
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: 9781316678480
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: 9781316730096
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1107162904
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1316615014
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9781107162907
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9781316615010
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A Final Thought: The Emperor's New Clothes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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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 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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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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Explores in detail an important section of the population of the Roman world which has too often been neglected.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman-- History.
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People with disabilities-- Rome-- History.
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People with mental 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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| Dewey Classification
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610.938
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| LC Classification
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R138.5.L3413 2018
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