'Madness' in the ancient world: innate or acquired? : from theoretical concepts to daily life /

'Madness' in the ancient world: innate or acquired? : from theoretical concepts to daily life /

Saved in:

Other Authors: Laes, Christian (Editor), Metzler, Irina, 1966- (Editor)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Turnhout : Brepols, [2023].
©2023.

Series: Antiquité et sciences humaines ; 10.

Subjects:

Intellectual disability > History.
People with mental disabilities > History.
Medicine, Ancient.
Intellectual Disability > history.
Persons with Intellectual Disabilities > history.

Tags: Add Tag

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Call Number: HV3004 .M33 2023

Save to List Photographic Request Become a member
Table of Contents:
  • Hidden in plain sight or simply untraceable? The challenge of studying intellectual disability in the ancient world / Christian Laes 'Mad bones': tracing mental disability in the bioarchaeological record and its possible socio-economic implications in past societies / Chryssa Bourbou Dagger of the mind: Macedonian kings and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) / Alexandra F. Morris The quest for Down Syndrome (and other symptoms) in antiquity / Edgar Kellenberger Excluded from the kingdom or leading revolution? Môroi and the question of intellectual disability in New Testament writings / Dominika Kurek-Chomycz and Emma Swai Brain injusry and intellectual disability in early and medieval China: two case studies / Olivia Milburn The Shoteh in rabbinic sources; intellectual disability or mental illness? / Lennart Lehmhaus Searching for intellectual disability in Byzantium / Fotis Vasilleiou Fools in Arabic medicine and hospitals; medical, social and economic studies / Peter E. Pormann Incapacitas Mentis: medieval musings on congenital fools / Irina Metzler Living creatively with intellectual disabilities; a father's observations as an opportunity for historical research / Edgar Kellenberger.