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Darrera modificació: 2018-02-04
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Laes, Christian (ed.), Disability in Antiquity, Oxford, Routledge (Rewriting Antiquity), 2017, 490 pp.
- Resum
- This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of ‘antiquity' but includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia that provide a broad and comparative view of the topic and enable scholars to see this important topic in the round.
Contents:
* Introduction: Disability History and the Ancient World. Past, Present and Future / Christian Laes
* Disability and Infirmitas in the Ancient World: Demographic and Biological facts in the longue durée / April Pudsey
-- The Ancient (Near) East:
* Disabilities from Head to Toe in Hittite Civilisation / Richard Beal
* Mesopotamia and Israel / Edgar Kellenberger
* Ancient Persia and Silent Disability / Omar Coloru
* Egyptian Medicine and Disabilities: from Pharaonic to Graeco-Roman Egypt / Rosalie David
* India: Demystifying Disability in Antiquity / M. Miles
* Disability in Ancient China / Olivia Milburn
-- The Greek World:
* The Greek vocabulary of disabilities / Evelyn Samama
* Ability and Disability in Classical Athenian Oratory / Martha Lynn Rose
* Disabilities in Comedy and Tragedy / Robert Garland
* Legal (and Customary?) Approaches to the Disabled in Ancient Greece / Matthew Dillon
* The Hellenistic Turn in Bodily Representations: Venting Anxiety in Terracotta Figurines / Alexandre Mitchell
* Plutarch's 'Philosophy' of Disability: Human after All / Michiel Meeusen
-- The Roman World:
* Roman Perfect bodies: The Stoic View / Bert Gevaert
* Foul and Fair Bodies, Minds, and Poetry in Roman Satire / Sarah Bond & T.H.M. Gellar-Goad
* The 'Other' Romans: Deformed Bodies in the Visual Arts of Rome / Lisa Trentin
* Mobility Impairment in the Sanctuaries of Early Roman Italy / Emma-Jayne Graham
* Mental Disability? Galen on Mental Health / Chiara Thumiger
* Madness and Mad Patients According to Caelius Aurelianus / Danielle Gourevitch
* Disability in the Roman Digest / Peter Toohey
-- The Late Ancient World:
* Hysterical Women? Gender and Disability in Early Christian Narrative / Anna Rebecca Solevåg
* Augustine's Sermons and Disabilities / Martin Claes & Anthony Dupont
* Infirmitas in Monastic Rules / Jenni Kuuliala
* The Coptic and Ethiopic Tradition on Disabilities / Carol Downer
* The Disability Within: Sexual Desire as Disability in Syriac Christianity / John Martens
* The Disabled in the Byzantine Empire / Stephanos Efthymiadis
* What Difference did Islam Make? Disease and Disability in Early Medieval North Africa / Matthew Gaumer
* Impotent Husbands, Eunuchs and Flawed Women in Early Islamic Law / Hocine Benkheira
* Disability in Rabbinic Judaism / Lennart Lehmhaus & Julia Watts Belser
-- The endurance of tradition:
* Then and now. Canonical law on disabilities / Irina Metzler
* The Imperfect body in Nazi Germany: Ancient Concepts, Modern Technologies / Toon Van Houdt
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Psicologia i psiquiatria
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