Deviance and Medicalization From Badness to Sickness
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780877229995 |
Publisher: | Temple University Press |
Imprint: | Temple University Press |
Pub date: | 01 Oct 1992 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 263 |
Weight: | 207g |
Height: | 234mm |
Width: | 156mm |
Spine width: | 7mm |