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Author Conrad, Peter, 1945-

Title Deviance and medicalization : from badness to sickness : with a new afterword by the authors / Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider ; foreword by Joseph R. Gusfield.

Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c1992.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  302.542 C763d 1992    ---  Available
Edition Expanded ed.
Description xvii, 327 p. ; 26 cm.
Note Originally published: St. Louis : Mosby, 1980.
"Recipient of 1981 SSSI Charles Horton Cooley Award."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-310) and indexes.
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: consequences for society -- A theoretical statement on the medicalization of deviance.
Subject Deviant behavior.
Social control.
Mental illness.
Mental health policy.
Social ethics.
Added Author Schneider, Joseph W., 1943-
ISBN 0877229996 (paper : alk. paper)
0877229988 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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