ISBN:
041536843X
,
9780415368438
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 288 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the social history of medicine
Parallel Title:
Print version Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal : Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Abnormalities, Human
;
Social medicine
Abstract:
With contributions from a range of scholars across differing disciplines, 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 an
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 The normal and the abnormal: Reflections on norms and normativity; 2 Invisible friends: Questioning the representation of the court dwarf in Hapsburg Spain; 3 From 'monstrous' to 'abnormal': The case of conjoined twins in the nineteenth century; 4 Eccentric lives: Character, characters and curiosities in Britain, c.1760-1900; 5 Constructing the common type: Physiognomic norms and the notion of 'civic usefulness', from Lavater to Galton
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Norms and violations: Ugliness and abnormality in caricatures of Monsieur Mayeux7 Made to measure?: Tailoring and the 'normal' body in nineteenth-century France; 8 'A masculine mythology suppressing and distorting all the facts': British women contesting the concept of the male-as-norm, 1870-1930; 9 Interpreting abnormal psychology in the late nineteenth century: William James's spiritual crisis; 10 Can kinship be designed and still be normal?: The curious case of child adoption; 11 Flexible norms?: From patients' values to physicians' standards
Description / Table of Contents:
12 A matter of degree: The normalisation of hypertension, c.1940-200013 Deviant roles, normal lives: Why every piazza needs its own 'madman'; Subject index; Name index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
