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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Laes, Christian (1973-....)
Titre(s) : Disabilities and the disabled in the Roman world [Texte imprimé] : a social and cultural history / Christian Laes,...
Traduction de : Beperkt ? Gehandicapen in het Romeinse Rijk
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-238 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Traduit du néerlandais. - Bibliogr. p. 192-214
"Almost fifteen percent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental
or physical disability and society tries to accommodate their needs. But what was
the situation in the Roman world? Was there a concept of disability? How were the
disabled treated? How did they manage in their daily lives? What answers did medical
doctors, philosophers and patristic writers give for their problems? This book, the
first monograph on the subject in English, explores the medical and material contexts
for disability in the ancient world, and discusses the chances of survival for those
who were born with a handicap. It covers the various sorts of disability: mental problems,
blindness, deafness and deaf-muteness, speech impairment and mobility impairment,
and includes discussions of famous instances of disability from the ancient world,
such as the madness of Emperor Caligula, the stuttering of Emperor Claudius and the
blindness of Homer"
Sujet(s) : Médecine grecque et romaine
Handicapés mentaux -- Rome
Indice(s) Dewey :
610.938 (23e éd.) = Médecine et santé - Monde antique - Grèce
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107162907. - ISBN 1107162904 (rel.). - ISBN 9781316615010. - ISBN 1316615014.
- ISBN 9781316730096
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455554053
Notice n° :
FRBNF45555405
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
