In her 1934 essay, “Anthropology and the Abnormal,” Ruth Benedict wrote, “Normality, in short, within a very wide range, is culturally defined. It is primarily a term for the socially elaborated segment of human behavior in any culture; and abnormality, a term for the segment that that particular civilization does not use.” Use relevant course material to both illustrate this quote (showing, for example, how culture can heal us but also make us sick) but also to make a larger argument against the idea of what is assumed to be normal about human experience.