Am I Normal? : The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)

Name: Am I Normal?
Brand: Profile Books Ltd
SKU: 9781788162463
Price: 2000 KES
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ISBN: 9781788162463

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by Sarah Chaney

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1788162463

ISBN-13 9781788162463

Edition Main

Publisher Profile Books Ltd

Imprint Wellcome Collection

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 13th, 2023

Print length 336 Pages

Weight 268 grams

Dimensions 12.80 x 19.80 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Society & social sciences Society and Social Sciences Sociology Sociology: family & relationships Sociology: family, kinship and relationships Anthropology Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology Psychology Social, group or collective psychology History of medicine

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The riveting history of the strange science of the 'Normal', and the origins of an anxiety-ridden modern obsession

Before the nineteenth century, the term normal was rarely ever associated with human behaviour. Normal was a term used in maths: people weren''t normal - triangles were. But from the 1830s, this branch of science really took off across Europe and North America, with a proliferation of IQ tests, sex studies, a census of hallucinations - even a UK beauty map (which concluded the women in Aberdeen were "the most repellent"). This book tells the surprising history how the very notion of the normal came about, how it shaped us all, often while entrenching oppressive values. Sarah Chaney looks at why we''re still asking the internet: Do I have a normal body? Is my sex life normal? Are my kids normal? And along the way, she challenges why we ever thought it might be a desirable thing to be.

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