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Chaney, Sarah

 
9781788162456: Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)
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ISBN 10 : 1788162455 ISBN 13 : 9781788162456
Editeur : Wellcome Collection, 2022

Synopsis

*A Blackwell's Book of the Year*
*A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022*
*A Telegraph Best Book for Summer 2022*
*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour*

'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph *****
'Riveting' Mail on Sunday *****
'Captivating' Guardian, Book of the Day
'Compelling' Observer

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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À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Chaney is a research fellow at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. She spent her teens and twenties furiously rebelling against the mainstream, whilst secretly longing to be normal. It wasn't until she passed thirty that she (mostly) stopped worrying about this mythical ideal. Alongside her research work she runs the public exhibitions and events programme at the Royal College of Nursing, occasionally writes for The Conversation and Psychology Today and reads far too much X-Men fanfic.

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Éditeur
Wellcome Collection
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1788162455
ISBN 13 
9781788162456
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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