Deviance and Medicalization

From Badness to Sickness

By: Peter Conrad

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Paperback | 15 October 1992

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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. Author note: Peter Conrad is Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University.Joseph W. Schneider is Professor of Sociology at Drake University.

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"[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 sociology of medicine, social problems and deviance courses...a particularly apt choice in social science courses in medical schools." --Social Science and Medicine

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology

Deviance, definitions, and the medical profession	p. 1
From badness to sickness: changing designations of deviance and social control	p. 17
Medical model of madness: the emergence of mental illness	p. 38
Alcoholism: drunkenness, inebriety, and the disease concept	p. 73
Opiate addiction: the fall and rise of medical involvement	p. 110
Children and medicalization: delinquency, hyperactivity, and child abuse	p. 145
Homosexuality: from sin to sickness to life-style	p. 172
Medicine and crime: the search for the born criminal and the medical control of criminality	p. 215
Medicine as an institution of social control: consequences for society	p. 241
A theoretical statement on the medicalization of deviance	p. 261
Afterword: Deviance and medicalization: a decade later	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 293
Author index	p. 311
Subject index	p. 317
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