Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal

Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity

By: Waltraud Ernst

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Paperback | 19 October 2012 | Edition Number 1

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This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact.

The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines - ranging from art history to social history of medicine, literature, and science studies to sociology and cultural anthropology. The contributors use as their conceptual anchors the works of moral and political philosophers such as Canguilhem, Foucault and Hacking, as well as the ideas put forward by sociologists including Durkheim and Illich.

With contributions from a range of scholars across differing disciplines, this book will have a broad appeal to students in many areas of history.

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Non-Fiction History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History General & World History Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Medicine Medicine in General History of Medicine

The Normal and the Abnormal
Historical and Conceptual Perspectives on Norms and Normativity
Invisible Friends: Questioning the Representation of the Court Dwarf in Hapsburg Spain
From âÇ Monstrous' to âÇ Abnormal': The Case of Conjoined Twins in the Nineteenth Century
Eccentric Lives: Character, Characters and Curiosities in Britain, c. 1760-1900
Constructing the Common Type: Physiognomic Norms and the Notion of âÇ Civic Usefulness', from Lavater to Galton
Norms of Beauty and Ugliness in French Culture
Made to Measure? Tailoring and the âÇ Normal' Body in Nineteenth-Century France
âÇ A Masculine Mythology Suppressing and Distorting all the Facts': British Women Contesting the Concept of the Male-as-Norm, 1870-1930
Interpreting Abnormal Psychology in the Late Nineteenth Century: William James's Spiritual Crisis
Can Kinship be Designed and still be Normal? The Curious Case of Child Adoption
Flexible Norms? The Case of Diabetes Mellitus
A Matter of Degree: The Normalisation of Hypertension, circa 1940-2000
Deviant Roles, Normal Lives: Why Every Piazza needs its Own âÇ Madman'
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