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Welcome!
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Workshop: Rare Health Conditions (People with
Physical or Mental Disabilities) Workshop leaders: Veronika Završki, Toni Šafer
how people dealt with diseases which were unknown to them or rare at the time
Introduction
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12.7.2016. Tuesday
13:30-14:30 - Introduction & Veronika Završki: "Joseph Carey Merrick" 14:30-15:00 - Lena von den Driesch: „St. Anthony’s fire – a divine punishment?“ 15:00-15:30 - Thomas Pichler: „Michael Foucault: „Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason“ 15:30-16:30 - Short Break 16:30-17:00 – Dario Prati: „Class kills“ 17:00-17:30 – Ashley Taylor: The social prejudices of English society towards those with either physical or mental illness in the 1960s. 17:30-18:00 - Thomas Durlacher : „Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed births in Early Modern Europe.“ 18:00-18:30 - Doris Stadler: "Shaping social images around 1900. An investigation of two case studies of hysterical and paranoid patients." 18:30-19:00 - Martin Reichstam: "Constructing (ab-) normality"
Workshop schedule
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14. 7. 2016. Thursday
15:00-15:30 - Karoliina Sjö: "Kirsti Teräsvuori" 15:30-16:00 – Gabriela Fesnak: "Saartjie Baartman
- `The Hottentot Venus`" 16:00-16:30 - Short Break 16:30-17:00 – Saša Jerič: "Hysteria in the 19th
century" 17:00-19:00 - FINAL CONCLUSION
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Joseph Merrick
The Elephant Man
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1862, Leicester Family„It is very strange, for, you see, mother was so beautiful”„Merrick family explained his symptoms as the result of Mary's being knocked over and frightened by a fairground elephant while she was pregnant with Joseph” Leicester Union
Workhouse
Joseph Carey Merrick
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Freak shows Sam Torr gathered a group of investors—
including freak-show promoter Tom Norman—to organize tours for Joseph. Joseph’s new advisors suggested he perform under the name “The Elephant Man, Half-a-Man and Half-an-Elephant.”
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1884.
„As at the time of my discovery of the Elephant Man I was the Lecturer on
Anatomy at the Medical College opposite, I was anxious to examine him in detail
and to prepare an account of his abnormalities.” (Treves, 1923)
„Here was a man in the heyday of youth who was so vilely deformed that
everyone he met confronted him with a look of horror and disgust.” (Treves)
Sir Frederick Treves: The elephant man and other
reminiscences
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December, 1886. Smell, skin, voice… „Mr. Carr Gomm wrote a letter to the Times
detailing the circumstances of the refugee and asking for money for his support. So generous is the English public that in a few days – I think in a week – enough money was forthcoming to maintain Merrick for life without any charge upon the hospital funds.”
Reading Dressing up Queen Alexandra – then Princess of Wales
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„Here was a being with the brain of a man, the fancies of a
youth, and the imagination of a child”
Country, dressing bag
Theatre
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Death
• 1890, Joseph was founddead, with no sign of struggle.
• The desease ? Not elephantiasis but a genetic disorder neurofibromatosis type I or Proteus syndrome
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1923 „The Elephant Man and Other
Reminiscences” Ashley Montagu: „The Elephant Man: A Study
in Human Dignity” Tom Norman Nadja Durbach: „The Spectacle of Deformity:
Freak Shows and Modern British Culture”
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Popularity
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Freak shows – were they purely exploitative or did
they generate popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference
Nowadays…?
Discussion