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Author Garland, Robert.

Title The eye of the beholder : deformity and disability in the Graeco-Roman world / Robert Garland.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1995.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.40938 G233E    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Survival of the Weakest -- 2. Half-Lives -- 3. The Roman Emperor in his Monstrous World -- 4. The Deformed and the Divine -- 5. Deriding the Disabled -- 6. The Physiognomic Consciousness -- 7. Images of the Deformed -- 8. Medical Diagnosis and Treatment -- 9. Towards a Teratology -- 10. Racial Deformity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-216) and indexes.
Subject People with disabilities -- Italy -- Rome.
Abnormalities, Human -- Social aspects -- Rome.
Disabled Persons -- history.
Congenital Abnormalities -- history.
Attitude.
Social Perception.
ISBN 0801431441
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