The Decomposing Flower Podcast

72: Joseph Merrick | The Elephant Man


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In the late 1880s, Joseph Merrick a man who suffered likely from Proteus Syndrome was recruited into The Freakshow, exhibited as The Elephant Man, treated like a monster and not a man, and today were going to discuss what it was like for Joseph and how he is still to this very day still treated like an exhibit.



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The Decomposing Flower PodcastBy Jen and Kyra