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The medicalization of society : on the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders / Peter Conrad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conrad, Peter, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--History.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This thought-provoking study offers valuable insight into not only how medicalization got to this point but how it may continue to evolve.
- Contents:
- Medicalization : context, characteristics, and changes
- Extension : men and the medicalization of andropause, baldness, and erectile dysfunction
- Expansion : from hyperactive children to adult ADHD
- Enhancement : human growth hormone and the temptations of biomedical enhancement
- Continuity : homosexuality and the potential for remedicalization
- Measuring medicalization : categories, numbers, and treatment
- The shifting engines of medicalization
- Medicalization and its discontents.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801892349
- 0-8018-9234-1
- OCLC:
- 310089722
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