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Deviance and Medicalization : From Badness to Sickness, Paperback / softback Book

Deviance and Medicalization : From Badness to Sickness Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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.

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