Prostheses in Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781472488091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 214 str.

Jane Draycott

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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