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Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University. His major research interests are in health and illness, social problems, and deviance. He served as president of the SSSP during 1996-97. He is currently completing a book on 'the medicalization of society.' Valerie Leiter is assistant professor of sociology at Simmons College. Her work focuses on disability, sociology of childhood, and family sociology. Currently, her research examines children's access to health care, and formal and familial systems of care for children with disabilities.
Chapter 1 1. Introduction
Chapter 2 I. MEDICALIZATION
Chapter 3 2. Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social Accomplishment
Chapter 4 3. Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social Control
Chapter 5 4. From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories
Chapter 6 II. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH PROBLEMS
Chapter 7 5. The 'Discovery' of Child Abuse
Chapter 8 6. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as Medical Research Problem Since 1945
Chapter 9 7. Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf...Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control,1950-1985
Chapter 10 III. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Chapter 11 8. Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement Newness
Chapter 12 9. Dynamics of Black Mobilization Against AIDS in New York City
Chapter 13 10. Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast Cancer
Chapter 14 IV. GENDER
Chapter 15 11. The Politics of Menopause: The Discovery of a Deficiency Disease
Chapter 16 12. Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender
Chapter 17 13. The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social Problem
Chapter 18 V. RACE, CLASS AND HEALTH CARE
Chapter 19 14. Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American Elderly
Chapter 20 15. Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the Hospital
Chapter 21 VI. MEDICAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Chapter 22 16. Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional Deviance
Chapter 23 17. Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for Accountability
Chapter 24 18. Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims