Categories of physical difference and disability in the societal creations of ancient Rome and modern America
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2016
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Disability is a modern concept, but categorizations of physical differences are not
so new. Looking at the ways physical differences are categorized and defined can say a lot
regarding the way that people with various physical differences are viewed and treated in
a particular society. I examine evidence of categorizations of physical difference from
Roman law, medicine, religion, and art in the later half of the Republic through the high
Empire. I then use this collection as a lens through which to view modern categorizations
of physical difference and definitions of disability.