Normality : a critical genealogy / Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens.
| Author/creator |
Cryle, P. M. (Peter Maxwell), 1946- author. |
| Other author/creator | Stephens, Elizabeth, 1969- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2017 |
| Description | 440 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2016051200 |
| ISBN | 9780226483863 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 022648386X hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9780226484051 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 022648405X paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | B105 .N65 C79 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |