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Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences

conrad@brandeis.edu Pearlman  102 781-736-2635

Expertise

Sociology of health and illness. Deviance. Field methods. Medicalization of Society. Public Discourse concerning the new genetics.

Courses

  • EL 94a - Experiential Learning Practicum
  • FYS 61b - Stigmatized Identities
  • HSSP 92b - Internship and Analysis
  • HSSP 110a - Integrative Seminar on Health
  • SOC 1a - Order and Change in Society
  • SOC 176a - Nature, Nurture, and Public Policy
  • SOC 191a - Health, Community, and Society
  • SOC 196a - The Medicalization of Society
  • SOC 203b - Field Methods
  • SOC 208a - Social Problems Theory and Research
  • SOC 217a - Problems and Issues in the Sociology of Health and Illness

Scholarship

  • Conrad, Peter, ed. Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives (Eighth Edition). New York: Worth Publishing, 2009.
  • Piloli, Linda, Peter Conrad, Phyllis Carr and Sharon Knight. "A Study of the Relational Aspects of Academic Medicine." Academic Medicine 84. January (2009): 106-114.
  • Conrad, Peter and Valerie Leiter. "From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: DTCA and Medicalization." Sociology of Health and Illness 30. (2008): 825-38.
  • Conrad, Peter and Cheryl Stults. "Contestation and Medicalization." Contesting Illness.. Ed. Pamela Moss and Kathy Teghtsoonian (eds.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008
  • Shostak Sara, Peter Conrad and Allan Horwitz. "Sequencing and its Consequences: Path Dependence and the Relationship between Genetics and Medicalization." American Journal of Sociology 114. S1 (2008): S287-316.
  • Conrad, Peter. "Eliot Freidson's Revolution in Medical Sociology.." Health 11. (2007): 141-44.
  • Conrad, Peter. The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders. Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
  • Szymczak, Julia and Peter Conrad ,. "Medicalizing the Aging Male Body: Baldness and Andropause." Medicalized Masculinities,. Ed. Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher Faircloth. Philadelphia:: Temple University Press,, 2006
  • Conrad,Peter. "The Shifting Engines of Medicalization." Journal of Health and Social Behavior (2005): 3-14.
  • Conrad,Peter. Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives (7th edition). Worth Publishers, 2005.
  • Conrad,Peter. "Human Growth Hormone and the Temptations of Biomedical Enhancement." Sociology of Health and Illness. Ed. Deborah Potter. Blackwell, 2004. 184-215.
  • Conrad,Peter, Valerie Leiter (eds.). Health and Health Care as Social Problems. Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
  • Conrad,Peter, co-ed.. The Double-Edged Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
  • Conrad,Peter, co-ed. with Chloe Bird and Allen Fremont. Handbook of Medical Sociology (5th edition). Prentice Hall, 2000.
  • Conrad,Peter. Sociological Perspectives on the New Genetics (co-ed. Jonathan Gabe). Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
  • Conrad,Peter, co-ed. Eugene Gallagher. Health and Health Care in Developing Countries: Sociological Perspectives. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
  • Conrad,Peter, w/ Joseph W. Schneider. Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
  • Conrad,Peter, with Julius Roth. The Experience and Management of Chronic Illness. JAI Press, 1988.
  • Conrad,Peter, with Joseph W. Schneider. Having Epilepsy: The Experience and Control of Illness. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.
  • Conrad,Peter. Identifying Hyperactive Children: The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior (expanded edition, forthcoming from Ashgate Publishers, 2006). Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1976.
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Profile

Teaches in medical sociology & qualitative research. Chair of "Health: Science, Society & Policy" (HSSP) program. Most recent book, The Medicalization of Society (2007), on origins & consequences of the growth of medical jurisdiction over human problems. New research on "ADHD" and life success.

 

Degrees

Boston University
Ph.D.

Northeastern University
M.A.

State University of New York at Buffalo
B.A.

Awards and Honors

  • Lee Founder's Award (from Society for Study of Social Problems, for lifetime contributions) (2007)
  • Leo G. Reeder Award for "outstanding contributions to medical sociology," Medical Sociology Section, ASA (2003)
  • Fulbright Fellowship (1996 - 1997)
  • President, Society for the Study of Social Problems (1995 - 1996)
  • Chair, Medical Sociology Section, American Sociology Association (1988 - 1989)
  • National Institute of Mental Health National Research Service Award (1986)
  • Chas. Horton Cooley award for an outstanding recent contribution to the field of symbolic interaction (1981)
  • Honorable Mention, Social Issues Dissertation Award, Sociology for Psychological Study of Social Issues (1976)