Disability Studies and the Classical Body (eBook, PDF)

The Forgotten Other
Redaktion: Adams, Ellen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception and disability studies, this book presents a range of approaches that reassess and reimagine traditional themes in studying disability in the ancient world, from the narrative voice to sensory studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000381337
• Artikelnr.: 61361473

Autorenporträt

Ellen Adams is Senior Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at King's College London, UK. She has published extensively on Minoan Crete, including a book entitled Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete: Social Dynamics in the Neopalatial Period (2017, CUP). For many years, she has also investigated how a dialogue between disability studies and Classics might enhance both disciplines.

Inhaltsangabe

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