Deviance and Medicalization - From Badness to Sickness (Paperback, Expanded)

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 changes in medicine and continued restrictions on social services.

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1992
First published:	October 1992
Authors:	Peter Conrad
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	263
Edition:	Expanded
ISBN-13:	978-0-87722-999-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-87722-999-6
Barcode:	9780877229995

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