Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World A Social and Cultural History
- New York Cambridge University Press 2018
- 238p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Conception, birth and the Crucial First Days ......23 Mental and intellectual Disabilities : Sane or Insane ? ...........37 Blindness, a Fate worse than death ........80 Deaf, Mute, and Deaf-mute: A silent story ....114 Speech defects: Stammering history ............133 Mobility impairments: History of pain and toil ........149
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Medicine Greek and Roman History Pope With Mental Disabilities