Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness - Couverture souple

Conrad, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0877229996 ISBN 13 : 9780877229995

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

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0877229996
• ISBN 13: 9780877229995
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 263
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible