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Deviance and Medicalization
Peter Conrad
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Description for Deviance and Medicalization
Paperback. Focusing on the nature of deviance, this book investigates the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. It examines specific cases of madness, alcoholism, opiate addiction, homosexuality, delinquency, and child abuse and draws out their theoretical and policy implications. Num Pages: 263 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 176 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
This classic text on the nature of deviance, originally published in 1980, is now reissued with a new Afterword by the authors. In this new edition of their award-winning book, Conrad and Schneider investigate the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. They examine specific cases—madness, alcoholism, opiate addiction, homosexuality, delinquency, and child abuse—and draw out their theoretical and policy implications. In a new chapter, the authors address developments in the last decade—including AIDS, domestic violence, co-dependency, hyperactivity in children, and learning disabilities—and they discuss the fate of medicalization in the 1990s with the changes in medicine and ... Read more
This classic text on the nature of deviance, originally published in 1980, is now reissued with a new Afterword by the authors. In this new edition of their award-winning book, Conrad and Schneider investigate the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. They examine specific cases—madness, alcoholism, opiate addiction, homosexuality, delinquency, and child abuse—and draw out their theoretical and policy implications. In a new chapter, the authors address developments in the last decade—including AIDS, domestic violence, co-dependency, hyperactivity in children, and learning disabilities—and they discuss the fate of medicalization in the 1990s with the changes in medicine and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9780877229995
SKU
V9780877229995
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About Peter Conrad
Peter Conrad is Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University. He has also co-edited Health and Health Care In Developing Countries (Temple) with Eugene B. Gallagher.
Reviews for Deviance and Medicalization
"[It] should become a standard text in the study of deviance definitions an the starting point for the resolution of such problems as the definition and causes of medicalization and its interrelationship with other trends in social control." —Contemporary Sociology "Deviance and Medicalization is excellent...a worthwhile book for colleagues as well as for students." —Qualitative Sociology "An excellent text for ... Read more