The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: September 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780472113392
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Politics / Current Events; Ancient Greece - History; Social Welfare (General); Social Science; Social Work; History: World; Ancient Greece; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; General; Social Science / Handicapped; Ancient - Greece; Greece; People with disabilities
Description: "The Staff of Oedipus looks at a wide range of writing on disability within the framework of ancient social history. Martha L. Rose examines not only ancient literature, but also evidence from papyri, skeletal remains, inscriptions, sculpture, and painting, as well as modern sources, including disability autobiographies, medical research, and the burgeoning scholarship and theoretical work in the field of disability studies."--Jacket.