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In: La Vouivre: Cahiers romands de psychologie analytique, 2006, vol. 15, p. 29-37
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In: Hoping for continuity. Childhood, education and death in Antiquity and Middle Ages, 2005, p. 72-83
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In: Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2008, vol. 27, no. 1, p. 49-62
Ancient medical discourse conveys a mainly negative view of children's bodies. From Hippocrates to Galen, newborn children are defined as imperfect and ugly beings, associating an excessive softness and weakness with various anomalies. Aristotle links their physical disproportions with those of dwarfs and animals. These disproportions induce physiological troubles and mental incapacities....
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