Histories of the normal and the abnormal : social and cultural histories of norms and normativity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ;
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- The normal and the abnormal : reflections 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 and 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 and violations : ugliness and abnormality in caricatures of Monsieur Mayeux / 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? : from patients' values to physicians' standards / Christiane Sinding
- A matter of degree : the normalisation of hypertension, c. 1940-2000 / Carsten Timmermann
- Deviant roles, normal lives : why every piazza needs its own 'madman' / Sara Bergstresser.