ISBN:
9781000381382
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Ancient Disabilities Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.9/080938
Keywords:
People with disabilities-History-To 1500
;
Civilization, Classical
;
Sociology of disability
;
Disabilities-History-To 1500
;
Disability studies
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Disability studies and the classical body: the forgotten other. Introduction -- PART 1: Communicating and controlling impairment, illness and pain -- 2. Two troubles: The dramatic tragedy of Western medicine -- 3. 'There is a pain - so utter -': Narrating chronic pain and disability in antiquity and modernity -- PART 2: Using, creating and showcasing disability supports and services -- 4. Prostheses in classical antiquity: A taxonomy -- 5. Displaying the forgotten other in museums: Prostheses at National Museums Scotland -- 6. New light on 'the viewer': Sensing the Parthenon galleries in the British Museum -- PART 3: Real bodies and retrieving senses: Disability in the ritual record -- 7. Interactional sensibilities: Bringing ancient disability studies to its archaeological senses -- 8. Rational capacity and incomplete adults: The mentally impaired in classical antiquity -- PART 4: Classical reception as the gateway between Classics and disability studies -- 9. The immortal forgotten other gang: Dwarf Cedalion, Lame Hephaestus, and Blind Orion -- 10. A history of our own?: Using Classics in disability histories -- Index.
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