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Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World
Christian Laes
其他書名
A Social and Cultural History
出版Cambridge University Press, 2018-04-12
主題History / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Ancient / RomeMedical / HistorySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / People with Disabilities
ISBN11071629049781107162907
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Q0FPDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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? -- Chapter 1 Conception, Birth and the 'Crucial' First Days -- Survivors? 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 -- 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?