Laes, Christian

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

9781107162907 7013


Medicine
Greek and Roman History
Pope With Mental Disabilities

Q64 / L129