Deviance and Medicalization From Badness to Sickness

Name: Deviance and Medicalization From Badness to Sickness
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ISBN: 9780877229995

ISBN-10: 0877229996

ISBN-13: 9780877229995

Edition: 1992 (Enlarged)

Authors: Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider, Joseph R. Gusfield

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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…

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 263
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Annemarie Goldstein Jutel is the director of research at the Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.




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




Medicine as an institution of social control: consequences for society



A theoretical statement on the medicalization of deviance


Afterword: Deviance and medicalization: a decade later


Bibliography


Author index


Subject index