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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Conrad, Peter, 1945- Deviance and medicalization. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1992 (DLC) 92013441 (OCoLC)25674835 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Conrad; Joseph W Schneider |
ISBN: | 9781439903490 1439903492 9780877229995 0877229996 |
OCLC Number: | 630116724 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages) |
Contents: | Deviance, definitions, and the medical profession -- From badness to sickness: changing designations of deviance and social control -- Medical model of madness: the emergence of mental illness -- Alcoholism: drunkenness, inebriety, and the disease concept -- Opiate addiction: the fall and rise of medical involvement -- Children and medicalization: delinquency, hyperactivity, and child abuse -- Homosexuality: from sin to sickness to life-style -- Medicine and crime: the search for the born criminal and the medical control of criminality / Richard Moran -- Medicine as an institution of social control: consequnces for society -- A theoretical statement on the medicalization of deviance. |
Responsibility: | Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider ; foreword by Joseph R. Gusfield. |
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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 Read more...


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