Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to SicknessThis 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. |
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Page ix
... Devi- ance and Medicalization cannot escape the charge of undermining the authority of the technical treatment and therapy professions . Fortunately , the Socratic hemlock is not avail- able . On another level , the ironist has also ...
... Devi- ance and Medicalization cannot escape the charge of undermining the authority of the technical treatment and therapy professions . Fortunately , the Socratic hemlock is not avail- able . On another level , the ironist has also ...
Page xi
... devi- ance in the broadest sense . Although we have endeavored to write to make our investigation and analysis available to undergraduate sociol- ogy - of - deviance students , we cover territory unfamiliar to many of our colleagues ...
... devi- ance in the broadest sense . Although we have endeavored to write to make our investigation and analysis available to undergraduate sociol- ogy - of - deviance students , we cover territory unfamiliar to many of our colleagues ...
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... that we now turn . The positivist approach assumes that devi- ance is real , that it exists in the objective experi- ence of the people who commit deviant acts and those 1. Deviance, definitions, and the medical profession,
... that we now turn . The positivist approach assumes that devi- ance is real , that it exists in the objective experi- ence of the people who commit deviant acts and those 1. Deviance, definitions, and the medical profession,
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... devi- ance to a search for causes of deviant behavior . In sociology such causes are usually described in terms of some aspect of social and / or cul- tural environment and one's socialization . Posi- tivists outside sociology typically ...
... devi- ance to a search for causes of deviant behavior . In sociology such causes are usually described in terms of some aspect of social and / or cul- tural environment and one's socialization . Posi- tivists outside sociology typically ...
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... devi- ance . " We use it in its technical , sociological sense to refer to behavior that is negatively de- fined or condemned in our society . When we use the term , we do not imply any specific judg- ment or that we think the behavior ...
... devi- ance . " We use it in its technical , sociological sense to refer to behavior that is negatively de- fined or condemned in our society . When we use the term , we do not imply any specific judg- ment or that we think the behavior ...
Contents
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drunkenness Inebriety and the disease concept | 73 |
the fall and rise of medical Involvement | 110 |
delinquency hyperactivity and child abuse | 145 |
from sin to sickness to lifestyle | 172 |
the search for the born criminal and the medical control of criminality | 215 |
consequences for society | 241 |
10 A theoretical statement on the medlcalization of deviance | 261 |
a decade later | 277 |
Bibliography | 293 |
Author Index | 311 |
Subject Index | 317 |
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Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness Peter Conrad,Joseph W. Schneider Limited preview - 1992 |
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