Peter Conrad
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PhD; Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University, United States
Peter Conrad 's Degrees
- PhD Social Sciences Brandeis University
Why Is Peter Conrad Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Conrad is 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.
Peter Conrad 's Published Works
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Published Works
- Medicalization and Social Control (1992) (1534)
- The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (2007) (1259)
- The meaning of medications: another look at compliance. (1985) (832)
- Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (1992) (802)
- The Social Construction of Illness: Key Insights and Policy Implications (2010) (663)
- The discovery of hyperkinesis: notes on the medicalization of deviant behavior. (1975) (481)
- The experience of illness: Recent and new directions (1987) (431)
- The Shifting Engines of Medicalization∗ (2005) (431)
- Handbook of medical sociology. (1972) (420)
- The shifting engines of medicalization. (2005) (420)
- From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories (2000) (321)
- Medicalization, markets and consumers. (2004) (296)
- The Medicalization of Society (2008) (292)
- Qualitative research on chronic illness: a commentary on method and conceptual development. (1990) (274)
- IN THE CLOSET WITH ILLNESS: EPILEPSY, STIGMA POTENTIAL AND INFORMATION CONTROL* (1980) (272)
- The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives (1994) (242)
- Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary Society (2011) (213)
- Uses of expertise: sources, quotes, and voice in the reporting of genetics in the news (1999) (206)
- Deviance and Medicalization (1992) (190)
- Trends in the use of psychotropic medications among adolescents, 1994 to 2001. (2006) (178)
- Another Piece to an Unfinished Puzzle@@@Having Epilepsy: The Experience and Control of Illness. (1983) (170)
- Public Eyes and Private Genes: Historical Frames, News Constructions, and Social Problems (1997) (166)
- Genetic Optimism: Framing Genes and MentalIllness in the News (2001) (151)
- Helmets, injuries and cultural definitions: motorcycle injury in urban Indonesia. (1996) (151)
- The impending globalization of ADHD: notes on the expansion and growth of a medicalized disorder. (2014) (129)
- Estimating the costs of medicalization. (2010) (122)
- Types of medical social control. (1979) (106)
- It's Boring: Notes on the Meanings of Boredom in Everyday Life (1997) (103)
- Medical and sociological typologies: the case of epilepsy. (1981) (102)
- A mirage of genes (1999) (101)
- A Study of the Relational Aspects of the Culture of Academic Medicine (2009) (99)
- The Culture of Academic Medicine: Faculty Perceptions of the Lack of Alignment Between Individual and Institutional Values (2009) (97)
- Learning to doctor: reflections on recent accounts of the medical school years. (1988) (96)
- Constructing the ‘Gay Gene’ in the News: Optimism and Skepticism in the US and British Press (2001) (92)
- Looking at levels of medicalization: a comment on Strong's critique of the thesis of medical imperialism. (1980) (91)
- Human growth hormone and the temptations of biomedical enhancement. (2004) (83)
- Hierarchy as a barrier to advancement for women in academic medicine. (2010) (80)
- Introduction: Sociological perspectives on the new genetics: an overview (1999) (77)
- Identifying hyperactive children: The medicalization of deviant behavior (1976) (73)
- Worksite health promotion: the social context. (1988) (69)
- The noncompliant patient in search of autonomy. (1987) (68)
- Medicalization: Changing Contours, Characteristics, and Contexts (2013) (66)
- From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: direct-to-consumer advertising and medicalisation. (2008) (62)
- Illness and the Internet: From Private to Public Experience (2016) (62)
- Sequencing and Its Consequences: Path Dependence and the Relationships between Genetics and Medicalization1 (2008) (61)
- Sociological Perspectives on the New Genetics (1999) (60)
- Health and fitness at work: a participants' perspective. (1988) (51)
- Collaboration in Academic Medicine: Reflections on Gender and Advancement (2009) (48)
- Homosexuality and remedicalization (2004) (47)
- The Internet and the Experience of Illness (2010) (46)
- New Public Service (2003) (44)
- Shandyism: The character of romantic irony (1978) (43)
- The Medicalization of Mental Disorder (2013) (43)
- Computers and qualitative data: Editor's introductory essay (1984) (35)
- A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera (1987) (32)
- Romantic Opera And Literary Form (1977) (28)
- The myth of cut-throats among premedical students: on the role of stereotypes in justifying failure and success. (1986) (28)
- Modern times, modern places (1998) (28)
- Computers and qualitative data (1984) (27)
- Global Perspectives on ADHD: Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries (2018) (25)
- Anselm Strauss and the sociological study of chronic illness: a reflection and appreciation (1997) (25)
- The experience of illness: by Ray Fitzpatrick, John Hinton, Stanton Newman, Graham Scambler and James Thompson. Tavistock, London, 1984. 292 pp. $16.95 (1987) (22)
- Medical Sociology at the Millennium (2000) (21)
- Deviance and medicalization: From badness to sickness, Exp. ed. (1992) (20)
- Health and Health Care In Developing Countries: Sociological Perspectives (1994) (18)
- New public management (1998) (17)
- Deviance and medicalization : from badness to sickness : with a new afterword by the authors (1992) (17)
- The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York (1984) (16)
- Health and Health Care In Developing Countries (1993) (16)
- The Sociology of Health and Illness (2000) (16)
- The sociology of health & illness:critical perspectives (2005) (15)
- Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era. (1983) (14)
- The Hitchcock murders (2000) (14)
- Eliot Freidson's revolution in medical sociology (2007) (14)
- The Medicalization of Deviance@@@Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness.@@@The Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems: Conflict and Collusion. (1981) (13)
- Prescribing more psychotropic medications for children: what does the increase mean? (2004) (11)
- The Discovery of Hyperkinesis (2017) (11)
- The medicalization of chronic pain (2010) (11)
- Medicalization, Etiology and Hyperactivity: A Reply to Whalen and Henker (1977) (11)
- Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition (2010) (11)
- The Victorian treasure-house (1973) (10)
- The Creation of Deviance: Interpersonal and Organizational Determinants. (1978) (10)
- The everyman history of English literature (1985) (10)
- Up, down, and sideways (2006) (9)
- Health and health care as social problems (2003) (8)
- Epilepsy in Indonesia: Notes from Development (1992) (8)
- 17. Contestation and Medicalization (2008) (8)
- Theorien des Managements (2002) (8)
- Computers and Qualitative Data: Special Issue of Qualitative Sociology. (1985) (8)
- Implications of changing social policy for the medicalization of deviance (1980) (8)
- Television, the medium and its manners (1982) (8)
- The Changing Social Reality of ADHD (2010) (7)
- At Home In Australia (2003) (7)
- The Internet and Medicalization: Reshaping the Global Body and Illness (2016) (7)
- American Circumcision Practices and Social Reality (1987) (7)
- Parallel play in medical anthropology and medical sociology (1997) (7)
- Down home: Revisiting Tasmania (1988) (6)
- Health Research, Qualitative (2001) (6)
- Medicalization: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives (2015) (6)
- Situational hyperactivity: a social system approach. (1977) (6)
- Putting a Name to It (2011) (6)
- Enhancing biology? Cosmetic surgery and breast augmentation (2003) (6)
- Borrowed Time: Artificial Organs and the Politics of Extending Lives (1987) (5)
- Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life (2003) (5)
- Creation: Artists, Gods, and Origins (2007) (5)
- She's not there (2012) (5)
- Qualitative sociology in international perspective: Editors' introductory essay (1988) (5)
- Tales of two hemispheres (2004) (5)
- To Be Continued: Four Stories and Their Survival (1995) (4)
- Authors' Reply: Faculty Values (2010) (4)
- Deviance, Medicalization of (2007) (3)
- Against Health: How Health Became a New Morality (2012) (3)
- How ethnography can help bioethics. (1994) (3)
- Marketing of Neuropsychiatric Illness and Enhancement (2013) (3)
- The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers (2011) (3)
- Opiate addiction: A revival of medical involvement (2013) (3)
- Self‐management as an Instrument for Public‐sector Reform: Its Prerequisites and Repercussions (2008) (2)
- Cinema and its discontents (2012) (2)
- State-Level Clustering of Safety Measures and its Relationship to Injury Mortality (1997) (2)
- Where I fell to earth: A life in four places (1990) (2)
- Irving Kenneth Zola (1935–1994) (1995) (2)
- Anselm Strauss and the Sociological Study of Chronic Illness: a Reflection and Appreciation with a selected bibliography of Anselm Strauss on pages 377-382 (1997) (2)
- Cassell's History of English Literature (2003) (2)
- Grass Roots Medicine: The Story of America's Free Health Clinics (2008) (2)
- The medicalization of life (2009) (2)
- Troy Duster, Backdoor to Eugenics. (1992) (2)
- Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives (First through to Ninth Editions) (1981) (1)
- The Second Discovery of Australia (2016) (1)
- The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior (2017) (1)
- A SYMPOSIUM ON ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER The Changing Social Reality of ADHD (2010) (1)
- Health and Health Care in Developing Societies: Sociological Perspectives (1993) (1)
- Reviews: Review essay where is the sociology of health and illness? (1980) (1)
- The man with the X-ray eye (1997) (1)
- Strategisches Human Resources Management (2003) (1)
- Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure (review) (2004) (1)
- Lest we forget [Book review of Lunn, Hugh. Words Fail Me: A Journey through Australia's Lost Language (2010).] (2010) (1)
- Genetic imaginations (1999) (1)
- Free agent: Anna Funder finds her feet in Brooklyn (2012) (1)
- Medicalizations. (Book Reviews: Framing Disease. Studies in Cultural History.) (1992) (1)
- Medicalization (2011) (1)
- 5. Medicalization and Risk Scares: The Case of Menopause and HRT (2010) (1)
- Identifying Behavior as Deviant and Defining Deviance as a Medical Problem: Audience Reactions to Children's Behavior (2017) (1)
- Coming of Age: Peter Conrad on Robin Boyd's 'The Australian Ugliness' Fifty Years On [Book Review] (2009) (1)
- Exploring the ADHD Diagnosis in Ghana : between disrespect and lack of institutionalization (2018) (1)
- The Work of Medicine: Social Organization of Medical Work . Anselm Strauss, Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985. xii, 310 pp. $25. (1985) (0)
- Tiptoeing beyond the tulips (2013) (0)
- THE JOYFUL COMMUNITY. By Benjamin Zablocki. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1971. 361 pp. $1.95 (1972) (0)
- Medical Sociologies: Diversity and Integration@@@The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine@@@Handbook of Medical Sociology (2001) (0)
- A less perfect union [The 2012 US presidential election.] (2012) (0)
- Light and shadow [Book Review] (2013) (0)
- Waiting for Barack (2012) (0)
- Fuhrungsqualitat (Quality of Leadership) (2000) (0)
- Arcadia: Last of the head trips (1993) (0)
- Sociology 194a: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (2012) (0)
- Clive James's 'Cultural Amnesia' [Book Review] (2007) (0)
- Genetic Counseling as Work (1993) (0)
- Thanks to Reviewers - October 2015 to September 2016. (2017) (0)
- Sister Act: Minogue Sisters [Book Review] (2010) (0)
- Epilogue: A Theory of the Medicalization of Deviant Behavior (2017) (0)
- Opera and the Literary Approach (1978) (0)
- Editors' farewell statement (1987) (0)
- David Armstrong. A New History of Identity: A Sociology of Medical Knowledge (2004) (0)
- Janacek and the Tragedians [Book Review] (1978) (0)
- Review symposium (1995) (0)
- Invited comments on the Shostak and Ottman review. (2006) (0)
- The Setting and the Sample (2017) (0)
- Lest We Forget [Book Review] (2010) (0)
- Can We Be Heroes?: Chris Lilley and the Politics of Comedy (2011) (0)
- Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure.By Charles L. Bosk. University of Chicago Press, 2003. 2d ed. 276 pp. Cloth, $18.00; paper, $14.00 (2004) (0)
- The work of medicine: social organization of medical work. (1985) (0)
- The World Capital and Its Art (1984) (0)
- I. Human Resource Management (1999) (0)
- Off target (2001) (0)
- Mental Illness as a Form of Deviance (2015) (0)
- Review of *The Devil and James McAuley*, by Cassandra Pybus. (2000) (0)
- Modern times, modern places / Peter Conrad (1999) (0)
- Call for Papers (2009) (0)
- Clinic Outcomes, Conclusions, and Areas for Further Research (2017) (0)
- Curtain Call: Joan Sutherland (2009) (0)
- Music: Plenty o' nuttin' (2012) (0)
- Empire of the Mind [Book Review] (2011) (0)
- Dominant issues in medical sociology: edited by Howard D. Schwartz and Cary S. Kart. Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass., 1978. 577 pp. $12.95 (1979) (0)
- Book reviews (1979) (0)
- Girt by picture frame: Australia at the Royal Academy, London (2013) (0)
- The Faith of Images: Up Close (2010) (0)
- Sydney, Not the Bush (2013) (0)
- Introduction: Sociology, Illness, and Deviant Behavior (2017) (0)
- Behind the Mountain (1989) (0)
- Shakespeare in Australia (2011) (0)
- Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society (2005) (0)
- Book Review (2004) (0)
- The Hippocritical Oath: German Doctor’s Role in Nazi Germany (2013) (0)
- The Good Son: Nick Cave (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Illness as Metaphor (1979) (0)
- Epilogue 2000: From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical Categories (2017) (0)
- Literature as Opera@@@Romantic Opera and Literary Form (1978) (0)
- Imagination and Innovation (2000) (0)
- Peter Conrad, Modernist Rhetor (1999) (0)
- Opera: A week at the opera (2013) (0)
- From Sesame to Wall Street: New York's Museum of Mathematics (2013) (0)
- Drama out of Music (1989) (0)
- Medicalization and Globalization II (2014) (0)
- Toward a Social System Approach to Hyperactivity: Situational Hyperactivity (2017) (0)
- Under the Skin: Fred Williams - Infinite Horizons (2011) (0)
- Human Resource Management in the Federal Republic of Germany (2012) (0)
- Reflections on Joseph R. Gusfield (2016) (0)
- The Fate of Carmen. Evlyn Gould (1999) (0)
- The Social Construction of Hyperactivity: Uncertainty and Medical Diagnosis (2017) (0)
- Nasty, British, and Short (2016) (0)
- General Requirements and System Architecture in Local Micro Smart Grid (2021) (0)
- ‘Enhancing’ the Body (2008) (0)
- Tom's last day. (1994) (0)
- The Social Control of Mental Illness.By Allan V Horwitz. New York: Academic Press, 1981. 224 pp. $19.50 (1983) (0)
- The faith of images [Photographer Carol Jerrems's latest exhibition Up Close.] (2010) (0)
- Writing from the Grave (2010) (0)
- Theatre: Good medicine (2013) (0)
- The Employee Free Choice Act: Are You A Target ? (2008) (0)
- Lingo and literature (2013) (0)
- Exhibits: From sesame to wall street (2013) (0)
- Search of Autonomy (2016) (0)
- Comprar Pathways of Care | PETER CONRAD | 9780632040766 | Wiley (2009) (0)
- Comment (2006) (0)
- Research in the Sociology of Health Care: Vol. 5: International Comparisons of Health Services.@@@Research in the Sociology of Health Care: Vol. 6: The Experience and Management of Chronic Illness. (1988) (0)
- A New History of Identity: A Sociology of Medical Knowledge (review) (2004) (0)
- Queen of the night: Meow Meow (2011) (0)
- Art: Girt by picture frame (2013) (0)
- Imagining America : versions of Niagara (1989) (0)
- Falling Stars: The Plight of the Windsors (2011) (0)
- Advances in Medical Social Science, Vol. 2 (1986) (0)
- Reflections on Joseph R. Gusfield (2017) (0)
- Use of Motorcycle Helmets in YOGYAKARTA : Some Observations and Comments (1989) (0)
- Divine Comedy: The Personae of Barry Humphries (2010) (0)
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