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Outsiders, outcasts and eccentrics

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The book explores the relationship between deviance, medicine, and experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By discussing the potential of the novel concept of communities of experienc...
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Merging the social history of medicine with the history of experiences, Outsiders, outcasts, and eccentrics explores the dimensions of deviance in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, India, and the United States. In their carefully selected case studies, the contributors use communities of experience as an overarching concept. Challenging the narrow individual-centred approach to deviance, the writers locate both deviance and normalcy in the relationship between individuals and their surrounding communities. As a whole, Outsiders, outcasts, and eccentrics approaches norm-making as entanglements between communality, experiences, and expectations, and it analyses the ways in which medicine and medical knowledge became intertwined in the same.
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Price: £25.00
Pages: 264
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Social Histories of Medicine
Publication Date: 02 March 2027
ISBN: 9781526187420
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

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

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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