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The Normal and the Abnormal Historical and Conceptual Perspectives on Norms and Normativity

The Normal and the Abnormal Historical and Conceptual Perspectives on Norms and Normativity
The Normal and the Abnormal Historical and Conceptual Perspectives on Norms and Normativity
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.
041536843X
1-25
Routledge
Ernst, Waltraud
13dc8953-a1e7-4d1e-ba4a-48805dd977f2
Ernst, Waltraud
Ernst, Waltraud
13dc8953-a1e7-4d1e-ba4a-48805dd977f2
Ernst, Waltraud

Ernst, Waltraud (2006) The Normal and the Abnormal Historical and Conceptual Perspectives on Norms and Normativity. In, Ernst, Waltraud (ed.) Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and cultural histories of norms and normativity. (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine) London, UK; New York, USA. Routledge, pp. 1-25.

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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.

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Published date: September 2006

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Local EPrints ID: 40910
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/40910
ISBN: 041536843X
PURE UUID: 80068d1a-f3c8-4c8e-abf4-cacdd26d0dc7

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Date deposited: 12 Jul 2006
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 15:51

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Author: Waltraud Ernst
Editor: Waltraud Ernst

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