Jane Draycott

Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity, integrating a wide range of types of evidence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009200516
• Artikelnr.: 70910461

Autorenporträt

Jane Draycott is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Glasgow. Her research investigates science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world. She has published extensively on the history and archaeology of medicine, impairment, and disability in the ancient world, including the monographs Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy from the Middle Republic to the Early Empire (2019) and Approaches to Healing in Roman Egypt (2012), and the edited volumes Prostheses in Antiquity (2019) and Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Extremity prostheses and assistive technology
2. Facial prostheses
3. Prosthetic hair
4. Design, commission and manufacture of prostheses
5. Living prostheses
Conclusion.