CiNii 図書 - Disabilities and the disabled in the Roman world : a social and cultural history

Almost fifteen per cent 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, 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.

Introduction
1. Conception, birth and the 'crucial' first days
2. Mental and intellectual disabilities: sane or insane?
3. Blindness: 'a fate worse than death'
4. Deaf, mute and deaf-mute: a silent story
5. Speech defects: stammering history
6. Mobility impairments: history of pain and toil
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