Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity - Brossura

Libro 18 di 35: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

Ernst, Waltraud

 
9780415648325: Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0415648327 ISBN 13: 9780415648325
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Sinossi

This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact.

The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines – ranging from art history to social history of medicine, literature, and science studies to sociology and cultural anthropology. The contributors use as their conceptual anchors the works of moral and political philosophers such as Canguilhem, Foucault and Hacking, as well as the ideas put forward by sociologists including Durkheim and Illich.

With contributions from a range of scholars across differing disciplines, this book will have a broad appeal to students in many areas of history.

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Waltraud Ernst

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415648327
ISBN 13 
9780415648325
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
304
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
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Germania

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9780415368438: Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  041536843X ISBN 13:  9780415368438
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007
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