Prostheses in Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Draycott, Jane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents cutting-edge and varied research which reveals the extent to which the study of prostheses is a vibrant and dynamic field of enquiry, and which has the potential to have far-reaching implications for the study of the history of health and well-being, impairment and disability, and understandings of the body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351232371
• Artikelnr.: 58397660

Autorenporträt

Jane Draycott is Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Ancient Science and Technology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Previously she was Lecturer in Classics at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Associate Teacher in Roman Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, all in the UK, and 2011-12 Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction, Jane Draycott
Chapter 1: The Complex Aspects of Experimental Archaeology: The Design of Working Models of Two Ancient Egyptian Great Toe Prostheses, Jacky Finch
Chapter 2: A Very Distinctive Smile: Etruscan Dental Appliances, Jean Mackintosh Turfa and Marshall Becker
Chapter 3: Prosthetic Hair in Ancient Rome, Jane Draycott
Chapter 4: 'An Amputee May Go Out with his Wooden Aid on Shabbat': Dynamics of Prosthetic Discourse in Talmudic Traditions, Lennart Lehmhaus
Chapter 5: Evidence of a Late Antique Amputation in a Skeleton from Hemmaberg, Josef Eitler and Michaela Binder
Chapter 6: Living Prostheses, Katherine van Schaik
Chapter 7: 'Prosthetic Imagination' in Greek Literature, Anne-Sophie Noel
Chapter 8: The Psychology of Prostheses: Substitution Strategies and Notions of Normality, Ellen Adams
Index