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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... ical self - help . They were repealed in most states during the Jacksonian period ( 1828-1836 ) be- cause they were thought to be elitist , and the temper of the times called for a more " demo- cratic " medicine . The repeal of the ...
... ical self - help . They were repealed in most states during the Jacksonian period ( 1828-1836 ) be- cause they were thought to be elitist , and the temper of the times called for a more " demo- cratic " medicine . The repeal of the ...
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... ical advances . Anesthesia and antisepsis made possible great strides in surgical medicine and improvements in hospital care . The bacteriolog- ical research of Koch and Pasteur developed the " germ theory of disease , " which had impor ...
... ical advances . Anesthesia and antisepsis made possible great strides in surgical medicine and improvements in hospital care . The bacteriolog- ical research of Koch and Pasteur developed the " germ theory of disease , " which had impor ...
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... ical period . This is another way of saying that historical constructions of deviance are linked closely to the dominant social control institu- tions in the society . Our perspective emphasizes a dual point of view : the attribution of ...
... ical period . This is another way of saying that historical constructions of deviance are linked closely to the dominant social control institu- tions in the society . Our perspective emphasizes a dual point of view : the attribution of ...
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... ical mechanism by which certain groups can dominate others . There are two general schools of deviance conflict theorists , the pluralists and the Marxians . The pluralist conception sees society as made of a variety of competing inter ...
... ical mechanism by which certain groups can dominate others . There are two general schools of deviance conflict theorists , the pluralists and the Marxians . The pluralist conception sees society as made of a variety of competing inter ...
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... ical treatment of sick deviants . Sociological analysis of the 19th - century medical involve- ment in the definition of madness ( Scull , 1975 ) and the more recent cases of the medical defini- tion of hyperkinesis ( Conrad , 1975 ) ...
... ical treatment of sick deviants . Sociological analysis of the 19th - century medical involve- ment in the definition of madness ( Scull , 1975 ) and the more recent cases of the medical defini- tion of hyperkinesis ( Conrad , 1975 ) ...
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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