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Previous Volume 358:2081-2082 May 8, 2008 Number 19

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By Peter Conrad. 204 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $40 (cloth); $20 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8018-8584-6 (cloth); 978-0-8018-8585-3 (paper).

"Medicalization" occurs when conditions that were not previously construed as illnesses are defined and treated as medical problems. Accordingly, these problems are newly deemed to require treatment by physicians or some other form of medical intervention such as therapy, medication, or surgery. The author of this short book, Peter Conrad — a professor of sociology at Brandeis University — has been an astute observer of this phenomenon for more than three decades. An expansion of recently published journal articles, this book is a summary of his latest thinking on the topic and a broad exploration of current trends and developments.

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