Ep2: Disability. A Parallel History Two Steps Forward. One Step Back.

[3-part documentary] Episode 2 of 3 Two Steps Forward. One Step Back. 1500s - 1800s In this new Yarn Miniseries I’m going to give you a rough history of Disability. In episode two we will see how the aftermath of the Reformation effected people with disabilities. We look at the Elizabethan Poor Laws and the Poor houses many Disabled people ended up in. We enter the massive institutions that were created for people with disabilities, including the infamous Bedlam Asylum and we explore the age of Enlightenment and beyond, when philosophers and physicians attempted to understand, classify and cue mental and physical disability. - Full episode transcript available here: Sources Short history of disability By Dr Robert Jackson MN Department of Administration - Council on Development Disabilities World Bank Historic England History Channel PBS United Nations Human Rights Office of High Commissioner Dr. William Bronston, Willowbrook Memorial Lecture Welcome Collection IWM Archive RTE Archive The Times Archive Special Olympics JSTOR IPC Greek Gods info YouTube

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Ep2: Disability. A Parallel History Two Steps Forward. One Step Back. is an episode from Yarn story podcast by John Roche.

This episode is 00:44:11 long.

This episode was published on Nov 15, 2020.

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