This engrossing book was the first ever investigation into the plight of the disabled and deformed in Graeco-Roman society, drawing on a wealth of material, including literary texts, medical tracts, vase paintings, sculpture, mythology and ethnography. It is now issued in paperback for the first time with a new preface and updated bibliography.
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This engrossing book was the first ever investigation into the plight of the disabled and deformed in Graeco-Roman society, drawing on a wealth of material, including literary texts, medical tracts, vase paintings, sculpture, mythology and ethnography. It is now issued in paperback for the first time with a new preface and updated bibliography.
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24pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, (18), 222, (24)pp. Contents: Survival of the Weakest; Half-Lives; The Roman Emperor in his Monstrous World; The Deformed & the Divine; Deriding the Disabled; The Physiognomic Consciousness; Images of the Deformed; Medical Diagniosis & Treatment; Towards a Teratology; Racial Deformity; Conclusions.
