Normality: A Critical Genealogy

by Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens

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 function of organs. But beginning in the middle of the twentieth century, normal broke out of scientific usage, becoming less precise and coming to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022648405X
• ISBN13: 9780226484051
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"