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Author Conrad, Peter, 1945-
Title Deviance and medicalization : from badness to sickness : with a new afterword by the authors / Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider ; foreword by Joseph R. Gusfield.
Publication Info Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1992.
Edition Expanded edition.


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Descript 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages)
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Edition Expanded edition.
Contents Deviance, definitions, and the medical profession -- From badness to sickness: changing designations of deviance and social control -- Medical model of madness: the emergence of mental illness -- Alcoholism: drunkenness, inebriety, and the disease concept -- Opiate addiction: the fall and rise of medical involvement -- Children and medicalization: delinquency, hyperactivity, and child abuse -- Homosexuality: from sin to sickness to life-style -- Medicine and crime: the search for the born criminal and the medical control of criminality / Richard Moran -- Medicine as an institution of social control: consequnces for society -- A theoretical statement on the medicalization of deviance.
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ISBN 9781439903490 (e-book)
1439903492 (e-book)
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Author Conrad, Peter, 1945-
Subject Deviant behavior.
Social control.
Mental illness.
Mental health policy.
Social ethics.
Alt author Schneider, Joseph W., 1943-
Descript 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Edition Expanded edition.
Contents Deviance, definitions, and the medical profession -- From badness to sickness: changing designations of deviance and social control -- Medical model of madness: the emergence of mental illness -- Alcoholism: drunkenness, inebriety, and the disease concept -- Opiate addiction: the fall and rise of medical involvement -- Children and medicalization: delinquency, hyperactivity, and child abuse -- Homosexuality: from sin to sickness to life-style -- Medicine and crime: the search for the born criminal and the medical control of criminality / Richard Moran -- Medicine as an institution of social control: consequnces for society -- A theoretical statement on the medicalization of deviance.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781439903490 (e-book)
1439903492 (e-book)
Author Conrad, Peter, 1945-
Subject Deviant behavior.
Social control.
Mental illness.
Mental health policy.
Social ethics.
Alt author Schneider, Joseph W., 1943-

Subject Deviant behavior.
Social control.
Mental illness.
Mental health policy.
Social ethics.
Descript 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Deviance, definitions, and the medical profession -- From badness to sickness: changing designations of deviance and social control -- Medical model of madness: the emergence of mental illness -- Alcoholism: drunkenness, inebriety, and the disease concept -- Opiate addiction: the fall and rise of medical involvement -- Children and medicalization: delinquency, hyperactivity, and child abuse -- Homosexuality: from sin to sickness to life-style -- Medicine and crime: the search for the born criminal and the medical control of criminality / Richard Moran -- Medicine as an institution of social control: consequnces for society -- A theoretical statement on the medicalization of deviance.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Schneider, Joseph W., 1943-
ISBN 9781439903490 (e-book)
1439903492 (e-book)
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