
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. Edited By Waltraud Ernst. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.
Page Count:
304
Publication Date:
2006-01-01
ISBN-10:
0203028252
ISBN-13:
9780203028254
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