Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness - Softcover

Conrad, Peter; Schneider, Joseph W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877229996 ISBN 13: 9780877229995

Verlag: Temple University Press,U.S., 1992

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0877229996
• ISBN 13: 9780877229995
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 263
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