EEX 2000 Lecture Notes - Bearded Lady, Twelve Tables, Intellectual Disability

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References to people with disabilities are found in accounts related to: social circumstances, public policies and practices. Different terms: mongoloids, ewinger, lame, retarded: 800 b. c. : spartans decided if weak children would be raised or left to die: 449 b. c: twelve tables of rome- put children whose form is different from other humans to death. (physical abnormality=death) father kills child, 400 b. c. : hippocrates- argued that epilepsy was not a curse caused by the gods: 360 b. c. : plato"s republic allowed for selective breeding to improve society and eliminate weakness/defectiveness. 15th century: court jestors- people with mental/physical disabilities. 1494: the hammer of the witches" seizures were indicative of being against god" endorsed by the pope. (seizures were an indication of possession by the devil) 1600"s elizabethan poor laws: refer to impotent poor people who were poor because they were unable to do work to support themselves (disabilities, such as blindness/physical disabilities that do not allow individuals to work)

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