In this Book
- Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
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.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9781439903490
Related ISBN(s)
9780877229988, 9780877229995
MARC Record
OCLC
835409236
Pages
347
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1992