Waltraud Ernst

Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal

Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780415368438
• ISBN-10: 041536843X
• Artikelnr.: 22519722

Autorenporträt

Waltraud Ernst

Inhaltsangabe

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