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Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality (Hardcover, 2023, Pluto Press) 4 stars

'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one …

Good on history, somewhat weaker as a manifesto

4 stars

Interesting stuff on eugenics, the anti-psychiatry movement and particularly its links with libertarian thinking, the history of neurodiversity, and the way disability and capitalism interact. The concluding chapter or two felt like an attempt to sketch out a way forward, but seemed a little too tentative for me.