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69 produkter
Medicalization of Society
On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders
Av Peter Conrad
Häftad, 2007
360 kr
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Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems-birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity-are now viewed as medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly …
Deviance and Medicalization
From Badness to Sickness
Av Peter Conrad
Häftad, 1992
511 kr
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This classic text on the nature of deviance, originally published in 1980, is now reissued with a new Afterword by the authors. In this new edition of their award-winning book, Conrad and Schneider investigate the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. They examine …
To Be Continued
Four Stories and their Survival
Av Peter Conrad
Inbunden, 1995
889 kr
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Books end, but the stories they tell continue. Stories exist to be retold, and those which are retold often enough acquire the status of myth. To Be Continued considers four such continuations of English literature, extending between the fourteenth and twentieth centuries, and surveying Europe, …
Mysteries of Cinema
Movies and Imagination
Av Peter Conrad
Inbunden, 2021
288 kr
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People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated without words – yet they were also alarmed to be witnessing events in a strange, mute, spectral realm, where the laws of time and space were suspended and magical …
Mythomania
Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis
Av Peter Conrad
Häftad, 2017
137 kr
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Peter Conrad’s exhilarating book exposes the absurdity and occasional insanity of our godforsaken, demon-haunted contemporary culture. Conrad casts his brilliant beam upon subjects from the Queen to the Kardashians, via Banksy, Nando’s, vaping, the vogue of the cronut, the mushroom-like rise of …
Hitchcock Murders
Av Peter Conrad
Häftad, 2001
245 kr
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Alfred Hitchcock remains the most famous of film-makers. Why was he so successful in enticing us to share his fears and desires? Cultural critic Peter Conrad can date the start of his Hitchcock obsession to his first boyhood viewing of Hitchcock's Psycho, one afternoon in Tasmania some forty years …
Sociological Perspectives on the New Genetics
Häftad, 1999
295 kr
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With the advent of the Human Genome Project, the new genetics has moved to the cutting edge of science and medicine. The development and use of such genetics will have a profound impact on our understanding of disease and behaviour. This volume presents new sociological research which explores the …
Health and Health Care as Social Problems
Av Peter Conrad, Valerie Leiter
Häftad, 2003
734 kr
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This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness …
Identifying Hyperactive Children
The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior Expanded Edition
Av Peter Conrad
Inbunden, 2006
2588 kr
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This is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD, originally published in 1976. The book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive and accessible introduction to the concepts and issues involved. …
Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition
Av Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1526 kr
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Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this …
Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition
Av Chloe E. Bird, Peter Conrad m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
619 kr
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Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this …
Imagining America
Av Peter Conrad
Inbunden, 2024
2100 kr
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In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize. For Mrs Trollope, Americans are unkempt …
Imagining America
Av Peter Conrad
Häftad, 2026
577 kr
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In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize. For Mrs Trollope, Americans are unkempt …
Imagining America
Av Peter Conrad
E-bok, 2024
598 kr
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In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize. For Mrs Trollope, Americans are unkempt …
Imagining America
Av Peter Conrad
E-bok, 2024
598 kr
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In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize. For Mrs Trollope, Americans are unkempt …
Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management
Preventing Breaches by Eliminating Secrets and Adopting Zero Trust
Av Peter Conrad, Sakshyam Shah m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
413 kr
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Traditional secret-based credentials can''t scale to meet the complexity and size of cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Today''s applications are spread across a diverse range of clouds and colocation facilities, as well as on-prem data centers. Each layer of this modern stack has its own attack …
Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management
Av Peter Conrad, Sakshyam Shah m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
425 kr
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Traditional secret-based credentials can''t scale to meet the complexity and size of cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Today''s applications are spread across a diverse range of clouds and colocation facilities, as well as on-prem data centers. Each layer of this modern stack has its own attack …
Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management
Preventing Breaches by Eliminating Secrets and Adopting Zero Trust
Av Ev Kontsevoy, Sakshyam Shah m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
358 kr
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Traditional secret-based credentials can't scale to meet the complexity and size of cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Today's applications are spread across a diverse range of clouds and colocation facilities, as well as on-prem data centers. Each layer of this modern stack has its own attack …
Television
The Medium and its Manners
Av Peter Conrad
Inbunden, 2016
2132 kr
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It dominates our lives. It is the twentieth-century medium. And yet we're all a little sheepish when it comes to television, disowning it by disavowal or by inventing subtle, innocuous disguises for it. Why is this? In this book, first published in 1982, Peter Conrad argues that our unease stems …
Television
The Medium and its Manners
Av Peter Conrad
Häftad, 2018
618 kr
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It dominates our lives. It is the twentieth-century medium. And yet we're all a little sheepish when it comes to television, disowning it by disavowal or by inventing subtle, innocuous disguises for it. Why is this? In this book, first published in 1982, Peter Conrad argues that our unease stems …
Identifying Hyperactive Children
The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior Expanded Edition
Av Peter Conrad
Häftad, 2017
757 kr
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This is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD, originally published in 1976. The book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive and accessible introduction to the concepts and issues involved. …
Television
The Medium and its Manners
Av Peter Conrad
E-bok, 2016
704 kr
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It dominates our lives. It is the twentieth-century medium. And yet we''re all a little sheepish when it comes to television, disowning it by disavowal or by inventing subtle, innocuous disguises for it. Why is this? In this book, first published in 1982, Peter Conrad argues that our unease stems …
Television
The Medium and its Manners
Av Peter Conrad
E-bok, 2016
749 kr
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It dominates our lives. It is the twentieth-century medium. And yet we''re all a little sheepish when it comes to television, disowning it by disavowal or by inventing subtle, innocuous disguises for it. Why is this? In this book, first published in 1982, Peter Conrad argues that our unease stems …
Identifying Hyperactive Children
The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior Expanded Edition
Av Peter Conrad
E-bok, 2017
873 kr
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This is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD, originally published in 1976. The book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive and accessible introduction to the concepts and issues involved. …
Identifying Hyperactive Children
The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior Expanded Edition
Av Peter Conrad
E-bok, 2017
892 kr
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This is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD, originally published in 1976. The book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive and accessible introduction to the concepts and issues involved. …
Dickens the Enchanter
Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
Av Peter Conrad
E-bok, 2025
143 kr
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A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens''s imagination and the world he created. See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity of a mind that …
Dickens the Enchanter
Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
Av Peter Conrad
E-bok, 2025
139 kr
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A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens''s imagination and the world he created. See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity of a mind that …
Dickens the Enchanter
Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
Av Peter Conrad
Inbunden, 2025
269 kr
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'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World'Marvellous... the best book on Dickens since G.K. Chesterton’s. -- A. N. Wilson, The OldieA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s imagination and the world he created.See Dickens as never before in this …
Dickens the Enchanter
Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
Av Peter Conrad
Häftad, 2026
138 kr
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'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World'Marvellous... the best book on Dickens since G.K. Chesterton’s. -- A. N. Wilson, The OldieA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s imagination and the world he created.See Dickens as never before in this …
Global Perspectives on ADHD
Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries
Av Meredith R. Bergey, Angela M. Filipe m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
805 kr
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Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been a common psychiatric diagnosis in both children and adults since the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. But the diagnosis was much less common-even unknown-in other parts of the world. By the end of the twentieth century, this was no …
