Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The Normal in Nineteenth- Century Scientific Thought
5. Chapter One. The “Normal State” in French Anatomical and Physiological Discourse of the 1820s and 1830s 23
6. Chapter Two. “Counting” in the French Medical Academy during the 1830s 63
7. Chapter Three. Rethinking Medical Statistics: Distribution, Deviation, and Type, 1840– 1880 100
8. Chapter Four. Measuring Bodies and Identifying Racial Types: Physical Anthropology, c. 1860– 1880 142
9. Chapter Five. The Dangerous Person as a Type: Criminal Anthropology, c. 1880– 1900 180
10. Chapter Six. Anthropometrics and the Normal in Francis Galton’s Anthropological, Statistical, and Eugenic Research, c. 1870– 1910 212
11. Part II. The Dissemination of the Normal in Twentieth- Century Culture
12. Chapter Seven. Sex and the Normal Person: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, and Sexual Hygiene Literature, 1870– 1930 261
13. Chapter Eight. The Object of Normality: Composite Statues of the Statistically Average American Man and Woman, 1890– 1945 294
14. Chapter Nine. Sex and Statistics: The End of Normality 333
15. Conclusion 353
16. Acknowledgments 361
17. Notes 363
18. Bibliography 407
19. Index 433