Saints & Disability

saints & Disability

There is an
assumption that in times before modern medicine, disabled people
didn’t survive or live for very long, and that their lives were a lot
worse than today. It’s true that before modern medicine, people
had less effective treatment for conditions and injuries that people
would probably survive today. But disabled people have still existed
throughout human history.

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Disability Action Research Kollective

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