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Handbook of medical sociology
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ISBN: 0130144568 Year: 2000 Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. Prentice Hall

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The Blackwell companion to medical sociology
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ISBN: 0631217037 1405122668 9780631217039 9781405122665 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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Némésis médicale: l'expropriation de la santé
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ISBN: 2020056615 9782020056618 Year: 1981 Volume: 122 Publisher: Paris Seuil

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Social science & medicine: A : medical psychology & medical sociology
ISSN: 01607979 18783929 Year: 1978 Publisher: Oxford Pergamon Press

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The medicalization of society : on the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders.
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ISBN: 9780801885846 9780801885853 080188585X 0801885841 Year: 2007 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press

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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.

Physicians of Western medicine: anthropological approaches to theory and practice
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ISBN: 9027717907 9027718814 9400964307 Year: 1985 Publisher: Dordrecht


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Santé et maladie: analyse d'une représentation sociale
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ISBN: 2719308668 Year: 1975 Volume: 5 Publisher: Paris Mouton

The new public health: health and self in the age of risk
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ISBN: 076195404X 9780761954040 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Sage

The medical world of early modern France
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ISBN: 0198227507 9780198227502 Year: 1997 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press,

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This is a unique history of French medicine between the sixteenth century and the French Revolution. Brockliss focuses on physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, providing an overview of long-term changes in their ideas about medicine and their craft. But he also discusses other denizens of the medical world-- quacks, charlatans, wise women, midwives, herbalist and others--setting them within the broader context of social, economic, demographic, and cultural change.

Medical work, medical knowledge and health care : a sociology of health and illness reader.
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ISBN: 0631223274 9780631223276 Year: 2005 Publisher: Malden Blackwell

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