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Can I read Normality : A Critical Genealogy on EtoBox?
Normality : A Critical Genealogy by Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Normality : A Critical Genealogy about?
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 mean a balanced condition to be maintained and an ideal
Who reads Normality : A Critical Genealogy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226483863
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Western, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25