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Autore: |
Conrad Peter <1945->
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Titolo: |
The medicalization of society : on the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders / / Peter Conrad
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Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Social medicine - History |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-196) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This thought-provoking study offers valuable insight into not only how medicalization got to this point but how it may continue to evolve. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The medicalization of society ![]() |
ISBN: | 9780801892349 |
0-8018-9234-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826809803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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