EAN: 9781788162463

AM I NORMAL? - SARAH CHANEY TASCHENBUCH

*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour*   *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science
Book of 2022*    'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the
whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph *****  'Riveting' Mail on Sunday ***** 
'Captivating' Guardian   Book of the Day  'Compelling' Observer   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.

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