Erscheint: Dezember 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Sachbuch
The Management of Normality
Critical Essays in Health and Welfare
Verlag:
Taylor & Francis Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36757878
EAN: 9781041399506
Erscheint: Dezember 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
Maintaining normality is hard work. It takes time, effort, and foresight. However, because it is romantic, it is also taken for granted - not least by social scientists. In a series of dazzling case studies, the author shows in his book The Management of Normality. (first published in 1990, now reissued with a new preface) how normality is constructed and imposed in our society. The work explores the social order of a cancer ward, the power and authority of the medical regime, the interview situation in psychotherapy, the politics of agoraphobia, the domestic management of intimacy, jealously as a class phenomenon, and the war survivors' syndrome as a social problem. The result is one of the most penetrating and stimulating books on the organization of social life to be published at the time.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Abram De Swaan
Zielgruppe
- Postgraduate
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 242