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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: 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: 9780415648325ISBN 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 This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsThe 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 BergstresserReviewsAuthor InformationWaltraud Ernst Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |