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Informationen zum Autor Christian Laes , Ph.D. (2004), Catholic University of Leuven, is Associate Professor of Latin and ancient history at the Free University of Brussels and the University of Antwerp. He has published five monographs and over fifty international contributions on the human life course in Roman antiquity. Childhood, youth, old age, marriage and sexuality as well as disabilities are the main focuses of his scholarly work. C.F. Goodey , Ph.D., has researched and published on the history of 'intellectual disability', including the ethical and social implications of the concept, for more than 20 years. His articles have appeared in a number of scholarly journals. He formerly held teaching and research posts at Ruskin College, Oxford, the Open University and the University of London Institute of Education. He is currently an independent consultant on learning disability in the UK. M. Lynn Rose , Ph.D, is Professor of History at Truman State University. She teaches ancient history and history of disabilities. Her monograph The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece was the first to systematically study the topic for the Greek world. Contributors: Patricia Clark, Bert Gevaert, Chris F. Goodey, Danielle Gourevitch, Emma-Jayne Graham, Lutz Graumann, Cornelia B. Horn, Christian Laes, Alex Mitchel, Martha L. Rose, Evelyn Samama, Lisa Trentin. Klappentext This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic from head to toe: mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorder, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies. 1. Approaching Disabilities a Capite ad Calcem. Hidden Themes in Roman Antiquity; Christian Laes, C.F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose; 2. Mental States, Bodily Dispositions and Table Manners: a Guide to Reading 'Intellectual' Disability from Homer to late Antiquity; C.F. Goodey, M. Lynn Rose; 3. Psychiatric Disability in the Galenic Medical Matrix; Patricia A. Clark, M. Lynn Rose; 4. Two Historical Case Histories of Acute Alcoholism in the Roman Empire; Danielle Gourevitch, with the collaboration of Dr. Gilles Demigneux; 4.1. Drunkenness, Alcoholism and Ancient History; Christian Laes; 5. Exploring Visual Impairment in Ancient Rome; Lisa Trentin; 6. A Nexus of Disability in Ancient Greek Miracle Stories: a Comparison of Accounts of Blindness from the Asklepieion in Epidauros and the Shrine of Thecla in Seleucia; Cornelia B. Horn; 7. Silent History? Speech Impairment in Roman Antiquity; Christian Laes; 8. Monstrous Births and Retrospective Diagnosis: The Case of Hermaphrodites in Antiquity; Lutz Graumann; 9. What's in a Monster? Pliny the Elder, Teratology and Bodily Disability; Bert Gevaert, Christian Laes; 10. A King Walking with Pain? On the Textual and Iconographical Images of Philip II and Other Wounded Kings; Evelyn Samama; 11. Disparate Lives or Disparate Deaths? Post-Mortem Treatment of the Body and the Articulation of Difference; Emma-Jayne Graham; 12. Disparate Bodies in Ancient Artefacts: the Function of Caricature and Pathological Grotesques among Roman Terracotta Figurines; Alex Mitchell; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS; GENERAL INDEX; INDEX LOCORUM ...
