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Normality : a critical genealogy / Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 440 pages illustrations 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226483863
  • 022648386X
  • 9780226484051
  • 022648405X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.1 23
Contents:
The normal in nineteenth-century scientific thought -- The "normal state" in French anatomical and physiological discourse of the 1820s and 1830s -- "Counting" in the French medical academy during the 1830s -- Rethinking medical statistics: distribution, deviation and type, 1840-1870 -- Measuring bodies and identifying racial types: physical anthropology, c.1860-1880 -- The dangerous person as a type: criminal anthropology, c. 1880-1900 -- Anthropometrics and the normal in Francis Galton's anthropological, statistical and eugenic research, c.1870-1910 -- The dissemination of the normal in twentieth-century culture -- Sex and the normal person: sexology, psychoanalysis and sexual hygiene literature, 1870-1930 -- The object of normality: composite statues of the statistically average American man and woman, 1890-1945 -- Sex and statistics: the end of normality.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Book Högskolan Väst Entréplan / Entrance floor Normkritisk 302 Cryle Available 6004300069848
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The normal in nineteenth-century scientific thought -- The "normal state" in French anatomical and physiological discourse of the 1820s and 1830s -- "Counting" in the French medical academy during the 1830s -- Rethinking medical statistics: distribution, deviation and type, 1840-1870 -- Measuring bodies and identifying racial types: physical anthropology, c.1860-1880 -- The dangerous person as a type: criminal anthropology, c. 1880-1900 -- Anthropometrics and the normal in Francis Galton's anthropological, statistical and eugenic research, c.1870-1910 -- The dissemination of the normal in twentieth-century culture -- Sex and the normal person: sexology, psychoanalysis and sexual hygiene literature, 1870-1930 -- The object of normality: composite statues of the statistically average American man and woman, 1890-1945 -- Sex and statistics: the end of normality.

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