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Peter Conrad Quotes

1945–2024 United States

Peter Conrad (12 April 1945 – 3 March 2024) was an American medical sociologist who has researched and published on numerous topics including ADHD, the medicalization of deviance, the experience of illness, wellness in the workplace, genetics in the news, and biomedical enhancements.

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What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.

Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (1980)

Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially social constructions — products of our own creation.

Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (1980)

Public "facts" are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must instead be picked, polished, shaped and packaged. Finally ready for display they the bear the marks of their shapers.

Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (1980)

When a theological world view dominated, deviance was sin; when the nation-states emerged from the decay of feudalism, most deviance became designated as crime; and in our own scientifically oriented world, various forms of deviance are designated increasingly as medical problems. Thus we view the medical paradigm as the ascending paradigm for deviance designations in our postindustrial society.

Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (1980)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Conrad (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.