People with disabilities have been discriminated, not only in the 1930s, but throughout the sum of time. Many people of the mentally ill community were taken advantage of and were the “test monkeys” for some inhumane treatments. From before, after and during the 1930s, they were thought of as a burden to society. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men, Lennie Small, one of the main characters, suffers from an intellectual disability. Although he is not the brightest, he is big and strong but does not realize his own strength. Unlike others like him, Lennie had someone to take care of him and to keep him company. Instead of being hidden from the outside world, he had a companion and a job just like any other person.
Many people of the US and UK …show more content…
The first mental institution, in Europe, may have been the Valencia mental hospital in Spain, 1406 CE. In many mental institutions (where the majority of the population are Catholic), the staff was regularly made up of those with clergy. Most mentally ill people in Russia were taken into monasteries until asylums were introduced in the mid-1800s. Mentally ill patients in clergy-run institutions were cared for under humane conditions, even though the whole populations could not be treated, the population grew. Saint Mary of Bethlehem, located in London, England, is the most infamous mental institution. What once was a monastery, started taking the mentally ill, in 1547, after Henry VII announced the transformation. “Bedlam” was the institution’s nickname after its horrendous conditions were exposed. Patients with a violent nature were put out to the public as sideshow freaks while those with a gentler nature were taken out onto the streets as beggars. After the exposure of “Bedlam”, other countries took after its example and created their own mental facilities. In 1566, San Hipolito, in Mexico, was built and holds the title of the first asylum established in the Maricas. In 1641, La Maison de Chareton was the first mental institution built in France. The Lunatics’ Tower in Vienna, built in 1784, became a showplace. In La Bicetre, in France, patients were shackled to walls in dark, cramped cells. The cuffs
Many people of the US and UK …show more content…
The first mental institution, in Europe, may have been the Valencia mental hospital in Spain, 1406 CE. In many mental institutions (where the majority of the population are Catholic), the staff was regularly made up of those with clergy. Most mentally ill people in Russia were taken into monasteries until asylums were introduced in the mid-1800s. Mentally ill patients in clergy-run institutions were cared for under humane conditions, even though the whole populations could not be treated, the population grew. Saint Mary of Bethlehem, located in London, England, is the most infamous mental institution. What once was a monastery, started taking the mentally ill, in 1547, after Henry VII announced the transformation. “Bedlam” was the institution’s nickname after its horrendous conditions were exposed. Patients with a violent nature were put out to the public as sideshow freaks while those with a gentler nature were taken out onto the streets as beggars. After the exposure of “Bedlam”, other countries took after its example and created their own mental facilities. In 1566, San Hipolito, in Mexico, was built and holds the title of the first asylum established in the Maricas. In 1641, La Maison de Chareton was the first mental institution built in France. The Lunatics’ Tower in Vienna, built in 1784, became a showplace. In La Bicetre, in France, patients were shackled to walls in dark, cramped cells. The cuffs