Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University. His major research interests are in health and illness, social problems, and deviance. He served as president of the SSSP during 1996-97. He is currently completing a book on "the medicalization of society."Valerie Leiter is assistant professor of sociology at Simmons College. Her work focuses on disability, sociology of childhood, and family sociology. Currently, her research examines children's access to health care, and formal and familial systems of care for children with disabilities.

• Chapter 1 1. IntroductionPart 2 I. MEDICALIZATIONChapter 3 2. Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social AccomplishmentChapter 4 3. Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social ControlChapter 5 4. From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical CategoriesPart 6 II. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH PROBLEMSChapter 7 5. The 'Discovery' of Child AbuseChapter 8 6. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as Medical Research Problem Since 1945Chapter 9 7. Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf...Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control,1950-1985Part 10 III. SOCIAL MOVEMENTSChapter 11 8. Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness"Chapter 12 9. Dynamics of Black Mobilization Against AIDS in New York CityChapter 13 10. Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast CancerPart 14 IV. GENDERChapter 15 11. The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency DiseaseChapter 16 12. Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of GenderChapter 17 13. The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social ProblemPart 18 V. RACE, CLASS AND HEALTH CAREChapter 19 14. Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American ElderlyChapter 20 15. Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the HospitalPart 21 VI. MEDICAL ACCOUNTABILITYChapter 22 16. Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional DevianceChapter 23 17. Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for AccountabilityChapter 24 18. Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims

Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University. His major research interests are in health and illness, social problems, and deviance. He served as president of the SSSP during 1996-97. He is currently completing a book on "the medicalization of society."Valerie Leiter is assistant professor of sociology at Simmons College. Her work focuses on disability, sociology of childhood, and family sociology. Currently, her research examines children's access to health care, and formal and familial systems of care for children with disabilities.

• Chapter 1 1. IntroductionPart 2 I. MEDICALIZATIONChapter 3 2. Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social AccomplishmentChapter 4 3. Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social ControlChapter 5 4. From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical CategoriesPart 6 II. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH PROBLEMSChapter 7 5. The 'Discovery' of Child AbuseChapter 8 6. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as Medical Research Problem Since 1945Chapter 9 7. Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf...Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control,1950-1985Part 10 III. SOCIAL MOVEMENTSChapter 11 8. Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness"Chapter 12 9. Dynamics of Black Mobilization Against AIDS in New York CityChapter 13 10. Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast CancerPart 14 IV. GENDERChapter 15 11. The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency DiseaseChapter 16 12. Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of GenderChapter 17 13. The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social ProblemPart 18 V. RACE, CLASS AND HEALTH CAREChapter 19 14. Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American ElderlyChapter 20 15. Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the HospitalPart 21 VI. MEDICAL ACCOUNTABILITYChapter 22 16. Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional DevianceChapter 23 17. Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for AccountabilityChapter 24 18. Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims

Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University. His major research interests are in health and illness, social problems, and deviance. He served as president of the SSSP during 1996-97. He is currently completing a book on "the medicalization of society."Valerie Leiter is assistant professor of sociology at Simmons College. Her work focuses on disability, sociology of childhood, and family sociology. Currently, her research examines children's access to health care, and formal and familial systems of care for children with disabilities.

• Chapter 1 1. IntroductionPart 2 I. MEDICALIZATIONChapter 3 2. Deviant Drinking as Disease: Alcoholism as a Social AccomplishmentChapter 4 3. Primum Non Nocere: Chemical Execution and the Limits of Medical Social ControlChapter 5 4. From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Observations on the Expansion of Medical CategoriesPart 6 II. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH PROBLEMSChapter 7 5. The 'Discovery' of Child AbuseChapter 8 6. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as Medical Research Problem Since 1945Chapter 9 7. Officer Ugg, Mr. Yuk, Uncle Barf...Ad Nausea: Controlling Poison Control,1950-1985Part 10 III. SOCIAL MOVEMENTSChapter 11 8. Silence, Death, and the Invisible Enemy: AIDS Activism and Social Movement "Newness"Chapter 12 9. Dynamics of Black Mobilization Against AIDS in New York CityChapter 13 10. Racing for the Cure, Walking Women, and Toxic Touring: Mapping Cultures of Action within the Bay Area Terrain of Breast CancerPart 14 IV. GENDERChapter 15 11. The Politics of Menopause: The "Discovery" of a Deficiency DiseaseChapter 16 12. Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of GenderChapter 17 13. The Emergence of Premenstrual Syndrome as a Social ProblemPart 18 V. RACE, CLASS AND HEALTH CAREChapter 19 14. Race versus Class in the Health Care of African-American ElderlyChapter 20 15. Lessons in Control: Prenatal Education in the HospitalPart 21 VI. MEDICAL ACCOUNTABILITYChapter 22 16. Sick Doctors: The Social Construction of Professional DevianceChapter 23 17. Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships and the Rise in Concern for AccountabilityChapter 24 18. Changing Medical Practice and Medical Malpractice Claims