CiNii 図書 - Disability studies and the classical body : the forgotten other

By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception, and disability studies, this book presents a range of approaches that reassess and reimagine traditional themes, from the narrative voice to sensory studies. It argues that disability and disabled people are the 'forgotten other' of not just Classics, but also the Humanities more widely. Beyond the moral merits of rectifying this neglect, this book also provides a series of approaches and case studies that demonstrate the intellectual value of engaging with disability studies as classicists and exploring the classical legacy in the medical humanities. The book is presented in four parts: 'Communicating and controlling impairment, illness and pain'; 'Using, creating and showcasing disability supports and services'; 'Real bodies and retrieving senses: disability in the ritual record'; and 'Classical reception as the gateway between Classics and disability studies'. Chapters by scholars from different academic backgrounds are carefully paired in these sections in order to draw out further contrasts and nuances and produce a sum that is more than the parts. The volume also explores how the ancient world and its reception have influenced medical and disability literature, and how engagements with disabled people might lead to reinterpretations of familiar case studies, such as the Parthenon. This book is primarily intended for classicists interested in disabled people in the Greco-Roman past and in how modern disability studies may offer insights into and reinterpretations of historic case studies. It will also be of interest to those working in medical humanities, sensory studies, and museum studies, and those exploring the wider tension between representation and reality in ancient contexts. As such, it will appeal to people in the wider Humanities who, notwithstanding any interest in how disabled people are represented in literature, art, and cinema, have had less engagement with disability studies and the lived experience of people with impairments. FREE CHAPTER AVAILABLE! Please go to https://bit.ly/3pzpO7n to access the Introduction, which we have made freely available.

List of figures
List of tables
Contributors
Foreword by Lennard J. Davies
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. 'Disability studies and the classical body: the forgotten other. Introduction', Ellen Adams
Part 1. Communicating and controlling impairment, illness and pain
Introduction, Ellen Adams
Chapter 2. Two troubles: the dramatic tragedy of Western medicine, Michael J. Flexer and Brian Hurwitz
Chapter 3. 'There is a pain - so utter': Narrating chronic pain and disability in antiquity and modernity, Georgia Petridou
Part 2. Using, creating and showcasing disability supports and services
Introduction, Ellen Adams
Chapter 4. Prostheses in classical antiquity: a taxonomy, Jane Draycott
Chapter 5. Displaying the forgotten other in museums: prostheses at the National Museums Scotland, Sophie Goggins
Chapter 6. New light on 'the viewer': sensing the Parthenon galleries in the British Museum, Ellen Adams
Part 3. Real bodies and retrieving senses: disability in the ritual record
Introduction, Ellen Adams
Chapter 7. Interactional sensibilities: bringing ancient disability studies to its archaeological senses, Emma-Jayne Graham
Chapter 8. Rational capacity and incomplete adults: the mentally impaired in classical antiquity, Patricia Baker and Sarah Francis
Part 4: Classical reception as the gateway between Classics and disability studies
Introduction, Ellen Adams
9. The immortal forgotten other gang: dwarf Cedalion, lame Hephaestus, and blind Orion, Edith Hall
10. A history of our own? Using Classics in disability histories, Helen King
Index

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