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Title: Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness by Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider ISBN: 0-87722-999-6 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: October, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness
Comment: I read this book for a course on the sociology of deviance, andfound it a valuable resource. It traces the historical developement of deviant 'sicknesses' such as opiate addictions, mental illness, homosexuality, and attention deficit disorder. The book examines how these forms of deviance were understood historically, and how they came they came to be understood as forms of 'sickness.' Conrad and Schneider examine medical model of understanding deviance, which is currently standard, from a removed and critical perspective. In the forward (of my edition) Joseph Gusfield puts it thusly, "They treat the medical model as something strange, not as something that is 'taken for granted' as 'normal.' When a body a body of thought or phenomemon is taken as problematic, as something to be explained, its naturalness, its claim to 'reality,' is called to account." This book does an excellent job at calling the claims of the medical model into account. This book offers new perspectives on hot-topics, is well organized, and is extremely well-researched. I would warn people that it is dense reading, and some people may find it hard to get through. I would especially recommend this book to any who would form a stance on any of the following issues: drug use/abuse, mental illness, juvenile delinquency, homosexuality, and medicine as a means of social control.
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Title: Being Mentally Ill: Sociological Theory (Social Problems and Social Issues) by Thomas J. Scheff ISBN: 0202305872 Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge by Eliot Freidson ISBN: 0226262286 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: June, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Asylums : Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman ISBN: 0385000162 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 October, 1961 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Theories of Deviance by Stuart H. Traub, Craig B. Little ISBN: 0875814190 Publisher: F E Peacock Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $62.95 |
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Title: Deviant Behavior (6th Edition) by Erich Goode ISBN: 0130825786 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 25 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $74.00 |
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