Disabilities and the disabled in the Roman world a social and cultural history
"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...
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Preface page vii
List of Abbreviations x
Introduction i
A Problem of Terminology i
Geographical and Chronological Parameters 12
Sources 14
A New Discipline? 20
1 Conception, Birth and the ‘Crucial’ First Days 23
Survivors? Handicapped Babies within a Regime of Massive Infant Mortality 23
Physicians and Parents in Search of Explanations 29
Biological Birth and Social Birth: A Crucial Interval? 31
2 Mental and Intellectual Disabilities: Sane or Insane? 37
The Madness of Emperor Caligula 3 7
Four Historical Approaches to ‘Mental Disorders’:
A Way Out of the Impasse? 42
Roman Legal Thought: A ‘Practical’ File 46
In Search of Learning Disorders and Intellectual Disabilities 52
Anecdotal Evidence for ‘Mental Disorders’ 61
Classifications by Ancient Physicians 66
Ancient ‘Psychotherapy’ 72
Christians, Devils and Possession 76
3 Blindness, a Tate Worse Than Death’? 80
Homer as ‘Symbolic Blind Man’ 80
Material Conditions 8 5
Theory and Practice of Ancient Ophthalmology 8 8
Ancient Authors on the Causes of Blindness 9 3
Blind and Visually Impaired People in Everyday Life 99
Blind People in Opinion and Thought 107
Christianity: Signs of Change? no
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vi Contents
4 Deaf, Mute and Deaf-Mute: A Silent Story 114
The Son of Croesus 114
Deaf Mute, Mute, Deaf? 117
Medical and Demographic Explanations: Old and New 120
Deaf-Mutes in Roman Law 124
Echoes from Everyday Life 127
The Venerable Bede and the Christian Vision 130
5 Speech Defects: Stammering History 133
Demosthenes: The Symbolic Stutterer? 133
Causes of Speech Defects: Antiquity and Now 135
In Search of Cases 137
The Emperor s Speech: Claudius as a Stutterer 140
Ancient Speech Therapy 144
Moses in the Jewish and Christian Traditions 147
6 Mobility Impairments: History of Pain and Toil 149
Philip II of Macedonia and Other ‘Crippled’ Kings 149
Mobility Impairments Then and Now: Osteology and Demography 151
Ancient Physicians on Deformities, Fractures and Healing 155
A Glimpse of Daily Life 160
The Role of Christianity 165
Conclusions 168
Functioning and Labour 169
Capabilities and the Happiness Index: Exclusion or Inclusion? 173
The Happiness Index 175
Monsters and Anti-Physiognomies: A Path to Identity Formation? 176
Disabilities as Political Invective: Despised as a War Hero and Reviled
as a Politician 179
Basic Positions 182
A History of Long Duration, but with Little Change? 187
New Paths 189
A Final Thought: The Emperor’s New Clothes 190
Bibliography 192
General Index 215
Index of Impaired Persons 220
Index Locorum 224
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