Paths to Rehabilitation? The Possibilities of Treatment
Patricia Skinner
This chapter distills examples of actual disfigurement or disfiguring head injury, and examines the evidence from texts archaeology that suggest ways in which disfigured individuals and/or their carers might survive quite serious injuries, seek solutions to damaged appearance, whether through concealment treatment. Included here will be rare cases documenting a “rehabilitation” sorts, medical moral. Striking metaphors on wound care pastoral letters clergy knowledge was not entirely absent early Middle Ages, simply transferred different conceptual arena. The role Church assisting victims psychologically is considered.
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