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Title: The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, (18),222,(24)pp.. 24pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Survival of the Weakest; Half-Lives; The Roman Emperor in his Monstrous World; The Deformed & the Divine; Deriding the Disabled; The Physiognomic Consciousness; Images of the Deformed; Medical Diagniosis & Treatment; Towards a Teratology; Racial Deformity; Conclusions.

Keywords: Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greece, Rome Greek, Graeco-Roman, Human Deformities, Disabled Disability, Handicapped, Abnormalities, Historical History

Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS005160I