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The Medicalization of Society

The Medicalization of Society Paperback / softback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Conrad, Peter (Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University)

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  • Title The Medicalization of Society
  • Author Conrad, Peter (Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University)
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Date 2007-06-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780801885853_inp
  • ISBN 9780801885853 / 080188585X
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.91 x 6.36 x 0.48 in (22.63 x 16.15 x 1.22 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Social medicine - History, Sociology, Medical - trends
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006033235
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.1

From the publisher

Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems--birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity--are now viewed as medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates aspects of daily life.

Building on more than three decades of research, Peter Conrad explores the changing forces behind this trend with case studies of short stature, social anxiety, "male menopause," erectile dysfunction, adult ADHD, and sexual orientation. He examines the emergence of and changes in medicalization, the consequences of the expanding medical domain, and the implications for health and society. He finds in recent developments--such as the growing number of possible diagnoses and biomedical enhancements--the future direction of medicalization.

Conrad contends that the impact of medical professionals on medicalization has diminished. Instead, the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries, insurance companies and HMOs, and the patient as consumer have become the major forces promoting medicalization. This thought-provoking study offers valuable insight into not only how medicalization got to this point but also how it may continue to evolve.

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  • Choice, 02/01/2008, Page 1199
  • Scitech Book News, 03/01/2008, Page 80

About the author

Peter Conrad is the Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University. He is the coauthor of Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness and coeditor of The Double-Edged Helix, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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