Am I Normal?: The 200-year Search for Normal People (And Why They Don't Exist) - Couverture souple

Chaney, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1788162463 ISBN 13 : 9781788162463

Editeur : Wellcome Collection, 2023

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Sarah Chaney takes us on an eye-opening and surprising journey into the history of science, revisiting the studies, landmark experiments and tests that proliferated from the early 19th century to find answers to the question: what's normal? These include a census of hallucinations - and even a UK beauty map (which claimed the women in Aberdeen were "the most repellent"). On the way she exposes many of the hangovers that are still with us from these dubious endeavours, from IQ tests to the BMI.

Interrogating how the notion and science of standardisation has shaped us all, as individuals and as a society, this book challenges why we ever thought that normal might be a desirable thing to be.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wellcome Collection
• Date d'édition: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1788162463
• ISBN 13: 9781788162463
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible