| Edition |
Expanded ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 327 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: St. Louis : Mosby, 1980. |
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"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.
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Social control.
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Mental illness.
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Mental health policy.
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Social ethics.
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| Added Author |
Schneider, Joseph W., 1943-
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| ISBN |
0877229996 (paper : alk. paper) |
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0877229988 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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