Pocket • 2007 • Engelsk

The Medicalization of Society

Name: The Medicalization of Society
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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 menopaus...Vis mer

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9780801885853

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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2007

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Engelsk

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The Medicalization of Society

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Pocket

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