Merging the social history of medicine with the history of experiences, Outsiders, outcasts, and eccentrics explores the dimensions of deviance in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, India, and the United States. In their carefully selected case studies, the contributors use communities of experience as an overarching concept. Challenging the narrow individual-centred approach to deviance, the writers locate both deviance and normalcy in the relationship between individuals and their surrounding communities. As a whole, Outsiders, outcasts, and eccentrics approaches norm-making as entanglements between communality, experiences, and expectations, and it analyses the ways in which medicine and medical knowledge became intertwined in the same.