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02 March 2027
MEDICAL / History, History of medicine, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social and cultural history, Social groups, communities and identities, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality
Katariina Parhi is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Johanna Annola is an Academy Research Fellow at Tampere University
Introduction: Experiences of deviancy in the social history of medicine – Katariina Parhi, and Johanna Annola
Part I: Deviance and exclusion
1 Political dissidence as mental deviance: Pro-Russian informers as targets of insanity claims in early twentieth-century Finland – Sami Suodenjoki
2 A degenerate family affair: Experiencing family degeneration and hereditary madness in early twentieth-century Sweden – Rebecka Klette
Part II: Deviance and discordance
3 ‘Unscientific’ dais and ‘ignorant’ mothers: Midwifery, mothercraft, and ‘communities of experience’ in colonial India – Ranjana Saha
4 A secluded place for deviant women: Experiences of female inmates with intellectual disabilities on the Danish island of Sprogø, 1923–61 – Jesper Vaczy Kragh, and Stine Grønbæk Jensen
5 ‘TikTok tics’: Cases of the medical stigmatisation and trivialisation of COVID-19-related functional tics in adolescents and the historical roots of these practices – Paula Muhr
Part III: Deviance and experts
6 Mental and social deviations as sources of mental health and normality: Knowledge production and norm definition in the late Russian Empire – Daniela Munteanu
7 Madness and deviancy: Carl Gehrmann’s spiritual medicine in late nineteenth-century Berlin – Burkhart Brückner
8 The case of Mr S.: Transvestism and normality in the early twentieth-century United States – Christopher M. Rudeen
9 The delinquent in the history of psychoanalysis: Still ‘waiting for acknowledgement’ – Elizabeth Lunbeck
Afterword: Deviance, experience, and medicine – Greg Eghigian