Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness : With a New Afterword by the Authors - 2nd Expanded edition

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. CONTENTS......Page 14 1. Deviance, definitions, and the medical profession,......Page 22 2. From badness to sickness: changing designations of deviance and social control......Page 38 3. Medical model of madness: the emergence of mental Illness......Page 59 4. Alcoholism: drunkenness, Inebriety, and the disease concept......Page 94 5. Opiate addiction: the fall and rise of medical Involvement......Page 131 6. Children and medlcalization: delinquency, hyperactivity, and child abuse......Page 166 7. Homosexualiy: from sin to sickness to life-style......Page 193 8. Medicine and crime: the search for the born criminal and the medical control of criminality......Page 236 9. Medicine as an institution of social control: consequences for society......Page 262 10. A theoretical statement on the medlcalization of deviance......Page 282 Afterword - Deviance and medlcalizailon: a decade later......Page 298 Bibliography......Page 314 Author Index......Page 332 Subject Index......Page 338 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. Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider ; Foreword By Joseph R. Gusfield. Originally Published: St. Louis : Mosby, 1980. Recipient Of 1981 Sssi Charles Horton Cooley Award. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 293-310) And Indexes. Focusing on the nature of deviance, this book investigates the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. It examines specific cases of madness, alcoholism, opiate addiction, homosexuality, delinquency, and child abuse and draws out their theoretical and policy implications. A classic text on deviance is updated and reissued