La maladie
Pendant le moyen âge
Some persons with disabilities, particularly those considered unproductive dependents, were "shipped off" to other lands. Some communities paid sailors to take such individuals away so they would no longer pose a burden. This practice led to the "Ships of Fools" , the boats that would sail from port to port, charging admission to view their strange human cargo. Eventually, the ships would abandon their "passengers" at another port, forcing them to fend for themselves.
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Philip Pinel (1745-1826), the leading French psychiatrist of his day, was the first to say that the "mentally deranged" were diseased rather than sinful or immoral. (http://www.mnddc.org/parallels/three/4.html) - ou la maladie comme étape explicative.
Some persons with disabilities, particularly those considered unproductive dependents, were "shipped off" to other lands. Some communities paid sailors to take such individuals away so they would no longer pose a burden. This practice led to the "Ships of Fools" , the boats that would sail from port to port, charging admission to view their strange human cargo. Eventually, the ships would abandon their "passengers" at another port, forcing them to fend for themselves.
The legend of the Ships of Fools is well-documented in literature as a symbol of perceptions of madness and other disabilities. While the actual practice of “shipping off” people with disabilities may have been rare, the popularity of the legend suggests that society wanted to separate itself from “deviant” populations. (http://www.mnddc.org/parallels/two/3.html)
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Philip Pinel (1745-1826), the leading French psychiatrist of his day, was the first to say that the "mentally deranged" were diseased rather than sinful or immoral. (http://www.mnddc.org/parallels/three/4.html) - ou la maladie comme étape explicative.
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