Histories of the normal and the abnormal : social and cultural histories of norms and normativity / edited by Waltraud Ernst.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

The normal and the abnormal : reflections on norms and normativity / Waltraud Ernst -- Invisible friends : questioning the representation of the court dwarf in Hapsburg Spain/ Janet Ravenscroft -- From 'monstrous' to 'abnormal' : the case of conjoined twins in the nineteenth century / Sarah Mitchell -- Eccentric lives : character, characters and curiosities and Britain, c. 1760-1900 / James Gregory -- Constructing the common type : physiognomic norms and the notion of 'civic usefulness', from Lavater to Galton / Lucy Hartley -- Norms and violations : ugliness and abnormality in caricatures of Monsieur Mayeux / Nicola Cotton -- Made to measure? : tailoring and the 'normal' body in nineteenth-century France / Alison Matthews David -- 'A masculine mythology suppressing and distorting all the facts' : British women contesting the concept of the male-as-norm, 1870-1930 / Lesley A. Hall -- Interpreting abnormal psychology in the late nineteenth century : William James's spiritual crisis / Francis Neary -- Can kinship be designed and still be normal? : the curious case of child adoption / Ellen Herman -- Flexible norms? : from patients' values to physicians' standards / Christiane Sinding -- A matter of degree : the normalisation of hypertension, c. 1940-2000 / Carsten Timmermann -- Deviant roles, normal lives : why every piazza needs its own 'madman' / Sara Bergstresser.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.