Overview

The series Studies in Early Medicine was established to allow scholars from all disciplines a forum for presenting new, groundbreaking or challenging research into aspects of disease, disability, health, medicine and society in the ancient and earlymedieval world, from prehistory to the Middle Ages. This present volume is the second in the series and presents some recent research into disability and impairment in Antiquity.

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Author:   Rupert Breitwieser
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   2359
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.598kg
ISBN:  

9781407309453

ISBN 10:   1407309455
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   15 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Language:   papers in German and English

Table of Contents

Preface (Rupert Breitwieser); 1) Disability and rehabilitation in the Graeco-Roman World (Manfred Horstmanshoff); 2) Zur Physiognomie und Ikonographie behinderter Menschen in der Antike (Ingomar Weiler); 3) Selbstrepräsentation von Behinderung im Alten Ägypten. Körperprothesen an Mumien und Grabstatuen voninderwüchsigen (Reinhard Selinger); 4) Cerebral paralysis in an ancient Egyptian female mummy from a 13th dynasty tomb - palaeopathological and radiological investigations (Sandra Lösch, Stefanie Panzer, Andreas G. Nerlich); 5) Behinderung und Gesellschaft im klassischen Athen. Bemerkungen zur 24. Rede des Lysias (Josef Fischer); 6) Behinderung und Behinderte in den griechischen Papyri (Peter Arzt-Grabner); 7) 'Behinderung' und Leistungssport in der Antike? 'Mys' der wundersame Ringer (Monika Frass); 8) Epiktet - ein Porträt des Philosophen als behinderter Mensch (Peter Daniel Moser); 9) Kaiser Claudius und der Umgang mit Behinderten zur Zeit des julisch-claudischen Kaiserhauses (Peter Emberger); 10) Mentally and Physically Challenged Persons in Martial's Epigrams (Bert Gevaert); 11) Angeborene Fehlbildungen in der Zeit der römischen Republik in den 'Prodigien' des Iulius Obsequens (Lutz Alexander Graumann); 12) Epilepsie und die Welt der paideia in der Spätantike (Jorit Wintjes); 13) The Forgiveness of Sins as Healing Method in the New Testament (Thomas Hentrich); 14) Lakuntaka-Bhaddiya ein verkannter Arahant. Eine ungewöhnliche 'Heiligen-Vita' des Theravada-Buddhismus (Wolfgang Hartl); 15) Linkshändigkeit in der Antike - eine Behinderung? (Edith Humer); 16) 'A lame mancan ride .a deaf man can kill.a dead man is of no use to anyone'. When was a deformity not a disability in Early Medieval Europe? (Timothy E. Jones).

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