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Author : Peter Conrad
Release : 2010-04-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Deviance and Medicalization by : Peter Conrad
Download or read book Deviance and Medicalization written by Peter Conrad. This book was released on 2010-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic text on deviance is updated and reissued.
Author : Peter Conrad
Release : 1980
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 988/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Deviance and Medicalization by : Peter Conrad
Download or read book Deviance and Medicalization written by Peter Conrad. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Conrad
Release : 2017-09-29
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 119/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Identifying Hyperactive Children by : Peter Conrad
Download or read book Identifying Hyperactive Children written by Peter Conrad. This book was released on 2017-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD, originally published in 1976. The book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive and accessible introduction to the concepts and issues involved. In this revised edition, Peter Conrad sets the original study in context, demonstrating the continuing relevance of his research. He highlights the issues at stake, outlining recent changes in our understanding of ADHD and reviewing recent sociological research. Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University, USA. He has written extensively in the area of medical sociology, publishing nine books and over eighty articles and chapters.
Author : Peter Conrad
Release : 2007-06-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 341/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Medicalization of Society by : Peter Conrad
Download or read book The Medicalization of Society written by Peter Conrad. This book was released on 2007-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems—birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity—are now viewed as medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates aspects of daily life. Building on more than three decades of research, Peter Conrad explores the changing forces behind this trend with case studies of short stature, social anxiety, "male menopause," erectile dysfunction, adult ADHD, and sexual orientation. He examines the emergence of and changes in medicalization, the consequences of the expanding medical domain, and the implications for health and society. He finds in recent developments—such as the growing number of possible diagnoses and biomedical enhancements—the future direction of medicalization. Conrad contends that the impact of medical professionals on medicalization has diminished. Instead, the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries, insurance companies and HMOs, and the patient as consumer have become the major forces promoting medicalization. This thought-provoking study offers valuable insight into not only how medicalization got to this point but also how it may continue to evolve.
Author : Peter Conrad
Release : 1992
Genre : Alcoholism
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Book Synopsis Deviance and Medicalization by : Peter Conrad
Download or read book Deviance and Medicalization written by Peter Conrad. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
