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She shows further that the main problem in relation to integration is a norm that locates agency, mobility and subjectivity in a naturalized and given body. Moser ( 2000) has pointed out that the normalization approach is constantly counteracted by processes that systematically produce inequality and reproduce exclusions. In most countries, what might be referred to as the empirical norm, a term coined by the French historian Henri-Jacques Stiker ( 1999), and the principle of normalization, have long dominated policies for and the care of disabled people. Towards the end of the article it is questioned whether our present knowledge about inheritance and the genetic makeup of human beings can support the understandings leading to the concepts of normal and normality. In the article brief historical glimpses into the birth of rehabilitation and the eugenic practices, which culminated with the killing of thousands of disabled people during the Nazi occupation of Europe are presented. The article describes how the ideas of the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet and his concept of the “average man”, together the work of the Victorian polymath Francis Galton, who coined the term eugenics, have had lasting influence on how we today conceive the term normality. This is an understanding that is closely linked to the development of eugenics, the rank ordering of human beings, the emergence of rehabilitation and the social construction of statistics within the social sciences. This article investigates the historical background of our present understanding of normality and the hegemony of the empirical norm. Notes on the History of Normality – Reflections on the Work of Quetelet and Galton Original Articles Notes on the History of Normality – Reflections on the Work of Quetelet and Galton Authors: Abstract