Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness - Softcover

Peter Conrad; Joseph W. Schneider

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877229996 ISBN 13: 9780877229995

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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 continued restrictions on social services.

About this title

Book Description:

A classic text on deviance is updated and reissued

From the Publisher:

A classic text on deviance is updated and reissued

Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0877229996
• ISBN 13: 9780877229995
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 327