The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era

2014

Lennard Davis
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Davis, L. (2013). The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. - In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is ?normal? have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person?s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as ?normal,? the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the twenty-first century unfolds. The book?s provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities.

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