Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness

Peter Conrad; Joseph W. Schneider

ISBN 10: 0877229996 / ISBN 13: 9780877229995

Published by Temple University Press, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877229996
• ISBN 13: 9780877229995
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

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 the Author

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.