1st Edition
Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity
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
Biography
Waltraud Ernst
