Normality : a critical genealogy /: a critical genealogy. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens.
• Authors: Cryle, P. M (Peter Maxwell), 1946-; Stephens, Elizabeth, 1969-
• Contents: The normal in nineteenth-century scientific thought -- The "normal state" in 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, 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.
• Publisher Details: Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302/.1; History -- General; Norm (Philosophy) -- History; Social sciences -- Europe, Western -- History -- 20th century; Social sciences -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century; Social sciences -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Social sciences -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Medicine -- France -- History -- 19th century; Medicine; Norm (Philosophy); Social sciences; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; History -- Europe -- France; History -- United States -- General; Science -- History; Medical -- History; Europe, Western; France; United States; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226484198
• Related ISBNs: 022648419X; 9780226483863; 022648386X; 9780226484051; 022648405X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.