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 v
... medical model " has become so much of the reality of contemporary public problems . The contribution is both to the general sociological analysis of social problems and to the specific debate and discussion of medicine as a para- digm ...
... medical model " has become so much of the reality of contemporary public problems . The contribution is both to the general sociological analysis of social problems and to the specific debate and discussion of medicine as a para- digm ...
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... medical metaphor is not as neutral and as amoral as it seemed in its inception . These two considerations of the moral status of compulsion are foundations for the second problem of medical metaphors as public issue . With the ...
... medical metaphor is not as neutral and as amoral as it seemed in its inception . These two considerations of the moral status of compulsion are foundations for the second problem of medical metaphors as public issue . With the ...
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... problem , 161 Historical notes on the maltreatment of children , 161 Child protection , 162 Medical involvement and the discovery of child abuse ... health , 180 Consolidating the medical model : the invention of homosexuality , CONTENTS XV.
... problem , 161 Historical notes on the maltreatment of children , 161 Child protection , 162 Medical involvement and the discovery of child abuse ... health , 180 Consolidating the medical model : the invention of homosexuality , CONTENTS XV.
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... problem ( e.g. , as deviance ) , designate what type of problem it is , and indicate what should be done about it ... medical profession ) gains the power and authority to define deviance , that is , to say what kind of a problem ...
... problem ( e.g. , as deviance ) , designate what type of problem it is , and indicate what should be done about it ... medical profession ) gains the power and authority to define deviance , that is , to say what kind of a problem ...
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... medical means to their own ends . Chapter 5 examines the fall and rise of opiate addiction as a medical problem , illuminating with par- ticular clarity the political struggles between supporters of criminal and medical definitions of ...
... medical means to their own ends . Chapter 5 examines the fall and rise of opiate addiction as a medical problem , illuminating with par- ticular clarity the political struggles between supporters of criminal and medical definitions of ...
Contents
1 | |
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38 | |
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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