Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity

Author:   Waltraud Ernst (University of Southampton, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415648325


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 October 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Waltraud Ernst (University of Southampton, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415648325


ISBN 10:   0415648327
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The Normal and the Abnormal Historical and Conceptual Perspectives on Norms and Normativity Waltraud Ernst Invisible Friends: Questioning the Representation of the Court Dwarf in Hapsburg Spain Janet Ravenscroft From ‘Monstrous’ to ‘Abnormal’: The Case of Conjoined Twins in the Nineteenth Century Sarah Mitchell Eccentric Lives: Character, Characters and Curiosities in Britain, c. 1760-1900 James Gregory Constructing the Common Type: Physiognomic Norms and the Notion of ‘Civic Usefulness’, from Lavater to Galton Lucy Hartley Norms of Beauty and Ugliness in French Culture Nicola Cotton Made to Measure? Tailoring and the ‘Normal’ Body in Nineteenth-Century France Alison Matthews David ‘A Masculine Mythology Suppressing and Distorting all the Facts’: British Women Contesting the Concept of the Male-as-Norm, 1870-1930 Lesley A. Hall Interpreting Abnormal Psychology in the Late Nineteenth Century: William James’s Spiritual Crisis Francis Neary Can Kinship be Designed and still be Normal? The Curious Case of Child Adoption Ellen Herman Flexible Norms? The Case of Diabetes Mellitus Christiane Sinding A Matter of Degree: The Normalisation of Hypertension, circa 1940–2000 Carsten Timmermann Deviant Roles, Normal Lives: Why Every Piazza needs its Own ‘Madman’ Sara Bergstresser

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