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Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness

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Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness - Conrad, Peter
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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- ...

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Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness 1992, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA

ISBN-13: 9780877229995

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Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness 1980, Mosby, Saint Louis, MO

ISBN-13: 9780801610257

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