Normality : a critical genealogy /
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer to a general state of health and the orderly func...
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Table of 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, 1840-1880
- 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.
