Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow)

Broschiertes Buch

Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome

Beschreibung

The first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as full a picture as possible of their importance for the lived experience of people with disabilities in classical antiquity.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781009168403
• ISBN-10: 1009168401
• Artikelnr.: 72877046