August 2016
VITAE
PETER CONRAD
Office Address
Department of Sociology MS-71
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Phone: 781-736-2635
Fax: 781-736-2653
Home Address
20 Old Sudbury Road
Lincoln, MA 01773
Phone: 781-259-8491
Email: conrad@brandeis.edu
Born: April 12, 1945
New York, New York
CURRENT POSITION:
Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology
Professor of Sociology, Heller School of Management & Social Policy (2006- )
Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queens
University of Belfast (2012-2016)
EDUCATION:
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1963-1967, B.A. (Sociology)
Northeastern University, 1967-1969, M.A. (Sociology)
Boston University, 1970-1976, Ph.D. (Sociology)
MAJOR INTERESTS IN THE FIELD:
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Sociology of Health and Illness, Deviance and Social Control, Sociology of Mental
Health, Qualitative Research Methods
Research on relation of Medicine and Deviance focusing on Epilepsy, the Experience of
Illness, and the Medicalization of Deviance. Research on the Pursuit of Health focusing
on Corporate health Promotion Programs. Research on Emergency Medical Services in
Indonesia. Research on the public discourse of the new genetics, focusing on Behavior
and Genetics in the News. Research on the Sociology of Biomedical Enhancement. The
Medicalization of Society. Research the Internet and the Experience of Illness.
HONORS:
Honorable Mention, Social Issues 1976 Dissertation Award awarded by the Society for
the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
1981 Charles Horton Cooley Award, awarded by the Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction, "For outstanding contribution to the study of symbolic interaction": Deviance
and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness.
Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University (Canada)
President, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1995-1996
Distinguished Fulbright Professor, Queen’s University of Belfast, 1997
Marquis Who's Who in America, 1997Leo G. Reeder Award from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological
Association for “distinguished contributions to medical sociology,” 2004.
Lee Founder’s Award (2007) “made in recognition of significant achievements that, over
a distinguished career, have demonstrated continuing devotion to the ideals of the
founders of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and especially to the humanist
tradition of Alfred McClung Lee and Elizabeth Briant Lee.” 2007
Finalist for C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2008, The
Medicalization of Society
James E. Greenley Award from the Division of Mental Health and Society of the Society
for the Study of Social Problems “for distinguished contributions to the Sociology of
Mental Health,” 2016.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
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New York State Regent's Scholarship, 1963-1967.
N.S.F. Traineeship, 1967-1968.
N.S.F. Dissertation Grant, (Soc. 74-22043), 1974-1975.
Grant from Drake University Research Council, 1976 - 1977.
Faculty Development Grants for Qualitative Sociology Workshops, 1977 (with Joseph W. Schneider) and Interface of History and Sociology Workshop, 1978 (with Frederick
Adams).
N.I.M.H. Grant R03MH30818, Principle Investigator, "Being Epileptic: Experience with
Epilepsy," Oct. 1977 - March 1979 (with Joseph W. Schneider).
Mazur Fund Research Grant, Brandeis University, "Corporate Health Promotion and the
Pursuit of Health," 1983-84, 1984-85, 1987-88.
Biomedical Research Grant (N.I.H.), "Corporate Health Promotion and the Pursuit of
Health," 1983-85.
N.I.M.H. National Research Service Award (IF32MH0933-01), 1985-86.
Mazur Fund Research Grant, Brandeis University, "Modernization and Medical Care in Urban Indonesia," 1989-90.
Grant from Center for Comparative and International Studies, Brandeis University, "Modernization and Medical Care in Urban Indonesia," 1989-90.
Study-Visit Grant from World Rehabilitation Fund, "Social Aspects of Epilepsy in Indonesia," 1989-1990.
Grant from Rockefeller Foundation, "The Social and Medical Organization of
Emergency Medical Services in Urban Indonesia, " 1989-1990 ($20,000), Principal
Investigator.
Grant form Sloan Foundation, "New Liberal Arts" Project for integrating quantitative
databases in course on medical care system, Summer 1992.
Grant from Kaiser - Family Foundation, "Constructing a Safety Index", 1994 ($3,000).
Travel Grant form American Council of Learned Society for travel to I.S.A., 1994.
Mazer Fund Research Grant, Brandeis University, "Homosexuality and Genetics in the
News," 1994.
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Grant form N.I.H. Human Genome Project Shannon Grant. "The News Media's
Presentation of Genetic and Hereditary findings: Behavior and Genetics, 1945-95."
1994-1996 ($100,000). Grant No. 1R55 HG00849-01A1. Principal Investigator.
Mazer Fund Research Grant, Brandeis University, "Genetics and Behavior in the News:
Some Comparisons in the British Press," 1996.
Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer, Queens University, Belfast, Spring 1997.
Mazer Fund Research Grant, Brandeis University, “The Demedicalization of
Homosexuality Reconsidered,” 2002.
Mazer Fund Research Grant, Brandeis University, “Measures of Medicalization,” 2003.
Provost’s Conference Fund Grant (with Sara Shostak), “Medicalization and the Growth of Health Care.” (2007)
Norman Fund Grant, Brandeis University, “Globalization of ADHD” (2010)
TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Boston University, Department of Sociology, Lecturer, 1971-1972, 1980-81.
Suffolk University, Department of Sociology, Instructor to Assistant Professor, 19711975.
Drake University, Department of Sociology, Assistant Professor, 1975-1978.
New York University, Department of Sociology, Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 1979.
Brandeis University, Department of Sociology, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1979-1981.
Brandeis University, Department of Sociology, Assistant to Full Professor, 1981-.
Brandeis University, Harry Coplan Chair in Social Sciences, 1993-.
Brandeis University, Chair, Department of Sociology, 1993-2002
Brandeis University, Chair, Health: Science, Society and Policy program, 2004-13
Brandeis University, Interim Chair, Department of Sociology, 2015-16
RELATED EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:
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Clinical Assistant, Boston State Hospital, 1969-1971.
Research Seminar in Law and Mental Health, Boston University Center for Law and
Health Sciences, 1972-1973.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy, Harvard Medical
School, January-December 1986.
Lecturer in Social Medicine and Health Policy, Harvard Medical School, 1987-1990.
Visiting Scholar, IUC Studi Sosial and Clinical Epidemiology Unit (School of Medicine),
Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, June 1989 to June 1990.
Lecturer, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health,
1993-97.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Social Science and Social Policy, University of London Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, England 1996-1997.
Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer, Queen's University of Belfast, No. Ireland, Spring 1997
and continuing Visiting Professor, 1997-2013 (one week per year)
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS:
Books and Monographs :
Identifying Hyperactive Children: The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior, Lexington,
MA: D.C. Health, 1976 (122 pp.).
Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (with Joseph W. Schneider),
St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1980 (311 pp.). Expanded edition, Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1992. (Translated into Japanese, 2003)
(Chapter 9 reprinted in s. Traub and C. Little Theories of Deviance, 4th and 5th
editions, Peacock, 1993 and 1999, in N. Herman Deviance: A Symbolic
Interactionist Approach, General Hall, 1995, in M. L. Anderson, K.A. Logo, H.F.
Taylor, Sociology: An Introductory Reader, 2001, 2008 and in D,M. Newman
and J. O’Brien, Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Pine
Forge Press, 2002, 2008; Chapter 7 reprinted in K.E. Rosenblum and T. M.
Travis, The Meaning of Difference, McGraw Hill, 1995; Chapter 3 reprinted in J.
McLeod and E. Wright. The Sociology of Mental Illness: A Comprehensive
Reader, Oxford U. Press, 2009).
The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives (edited with Rochelle Kern),
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981 (642 pp.).
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Having Epilepsy: The Experience and Control of Illness (with Joseph W. Schneider),
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983 (274 pp.). Paperback edition, 1985.
Computers and Qualitative Data (Special Issue of Qualitative Sociology edited with
Shulamit Reinharz), New York: Human Sciences Press, 1984 (212 pp.).
The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, Second Edition (edited with
Rochelle Kern), New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986 (540 pp.).
Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Volume 6 (The Experience and Management
of Chronic Illness) (edited with Julius A. Roth), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1987 (321
pp.).
Work-site Health Promotion (edited Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine, 26
[5], 1988, [94 pp.]).
Qualitative Sociology in International Perspective (Special Issue of Qualitative
Sociology, edited with Shulamit Reinharz), New York: Human Sciences Press, 1988 (154
pp.).
The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, Third Edition (edited with
Rochelle Kern), New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990 (534 pp.).
Health and Health Care in Developing Societies: Sociological Perspectives, (edited with
Eugene Gallagher). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993 (314 pp.).
(Introduction reprinted in D. Matcha (ed.), Readings in Medical Sociology,
Prentice Hall, 2000)
The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, Fourth Edition (edited with
Rochelle Kern), New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994 (556 pp.).
The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, Fifth Edition, New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1997 (550 pp.).
Sociological Perspectives on the New Genetics (edited with John Gabe), London:
Blackwell, 1999. (219 pp.)
Handbook of Medical Sociology (edited with Chloe Bird and Allen Fremont), Fifth
Edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. (438 pp.)
Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, Sixth Edition, New York: WorthSt. Martin’s Press, 2001. (546 pp.)
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The Double-Edged Helix: Social Dimensions of Genetics in a Diverse Society (co-edited
with Joseph Alper, Adrienne Asch, John Beckwith, and Cathy Ard). Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2002. (291 pp.)
Health and Health Care as Social Problems (co-edited with Valerie Leiter). Colorado:
Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. (367 pp.)
Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, Seventh Edition, New York:
Worth Publishers, 2005. (595 pp.)
Identifying Hyperactive Children: The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior. Expanded
edition. (Sociology Classics series) Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. (159 pp.)
The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Condition into
Treatable Disorders. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. (204 pp.)
(Translated into Chinese and Korean, forthcoming)
Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, Eighth Edition, New York:
Worth Publishers, 2009. (625 pp.)
Co-editor, “The Medicalization of Life” (with Antonio Maturo) Salute e Societa (special
issue), Anno VIII-n/2009, Franco Angeli, (in Italian and English)
Handbook of Medical Sociology (edited with Chloe Bird, Allen Fremont and Stefan
Timmermans), Sixth Edition, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press 2010. (457 pp.)
Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives. Ninth Edition. (edited with
Valerie Leiter) New York: Worth Publishers, 2013. (647 pages)
Global Perspectives on ADHD: The Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in
16 Countries (coedited with Meredith Bergey, Angela Filipe, and Ilina Singh).
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. In Press.
Articles and Chapters:
"The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant Behavior,"
Social Problems 32:1, October 1975, pp. 12-21. (Reprinted in E. Rubington and M.S.
Weinberg, Deviance: An Interactionist Perspective, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
Editions, Macmillan, 1978, 1981,1987, 1995; H.D. Schwartz and S. Kart, Dominant
Issues in Medical Sociology, Addison-Wesley, 1978, 1987, 1994; E. Rubington and M.S.
Weinberg, The Sociology of Social Problems: Five Perspectives, Third, Fourth and Fifth
editions, Oxford, 1980,1988, 1994; K. Stoddart, The Sociology of Deviance, Richmond,
B.C.: Open Learning Institute, 1980; M. Kelleher et al., Drugs and Society: A Critical
Reader, Kendell/Hunt, 1983; D. Kelly, Deviant Behavior, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and
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Seventh Editions, St. Martin's 1992, 1995, Worth 2002, 2009; P. Kollock and J. O'Brien,
Social Psychology: a Guide to Social Interactionism, 1st, 2d, and 3d Editions, Pine Forge
Press, 1993, 1996, 2001; S. Danforth, Crucial Topics in Special Education, Prentice Hall,
2003; A. Caplan, J. McCartney, D.M. Sisti, Health, Disease and Illness, Georgetown
University Press, 2004; J. McLeod and E. Wright. The Sociology of Mental Illness: A
Comprehensive Reader, Oxford U. Press, 2009) (Translated in German, 1982; Serbian,
1993.)
"Situational Hyperactivity: A Social System Approach," Journal of School Health 47:5,
May 1977, pp.280-85. (Reprinted in The Educational Digest 13, October 1977, pp. 3941.)
"Medicalization, Etiology, and Hyperactivity: A Reply to Whelan and Henker," Social
Problems 24:5 June 1977, pp. 596-598.
"Does Difference Mean Disease? Hyperactivity and Behavior Control," in John
Torgerson and John E. Donovan, Issues in Biomedical Ethics, Des Moines: Drake
University, 1977, pp. 68-72.
"Medicine," in Joseph Roucek, Social Control for the 1980's, Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1978 (with Joseph W. Schneider), pp.346-58.
"Types of Medical Social Control," Sociology of Health and Illness 1:1, June 1979, pp.
1-11 (Reprinted in S. Henry, Social Control: Aspects of Non-State Justice, Dartmouth
Publ. [U.K. 1994]).
"On the Medicalization of Deviance and Social Control, " in David Ingelby, Critical
Psychiatry, New York: Pantheon, 1980, pp. 102-119. (Translated in Spanish, 1983;
Reprinted, 2004.)
"The Medical Control of Deviance: Contests and Consequences," Research in the
Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 1, (Professional Control of Health Care and its
Challenges), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1980 (with Joseph W. Schneider), pp. 1-53.
"Looking at Levels of Medicalization: A Comment on Strong's Critique of the Thesis of
Medical Imperialism," Social Science and Medicine 14A, January 1980, (with Joseph W.
Schneider), pp. 75-79.
"Implications of Changing Social Policy for the Medicalization of Deviance,"
Contemporary Crises 4:2, April 1980, pp. 195-205.
"Where is the Sociology of Health and Illness?" (Review Essay), Qualitative Sociology
3:2, Summer 1980, pp. 152-159.
"In the Closet with Illness: Epilepsy, Stigma Potential and Information Control," Social
Problems 28:1, October 1980, (with Joseph W. Schneider), pp. 32-44. (Reprinted in D.
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Kelly, Deviant Behavior, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, St. Martin's Press,
1984, 1988, 1992, 1995; P. Conrad and R. Kern, Sociology of Health and Illness:
Critical Perspectives, Second Edition, St. Martin's Press, 1986.)
"Medical and Sociological Typologies: The Case of Epilepsy," Social Science and
Medicine 15A, 1981 (with Joseph W. Schneider), pp. 211-219.
"Professionalization, Monopoly and the Structure of Medical Practice," Section of
Chapter 1 of Deviance and Medicalization revised and reprinted in Conrad and Kern, The
Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, 1981, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1997,
2001 2005, 2009.
"The Social Construction of Hyperactivity: Uncertainty and Medical Diagnosis, "
(expanded version) in Andrew J. Gordon and R. Timothy Sieber (eds.), Children and
Their Organizations: Investigations in American Culture, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981, pp.
193-217.
"Pitfalls of Prevention" (editorial), Disability and Chronic Disease Quarterly 4:2, Spring
1984, pp. 1-2.
"Computers and Qualitative Data: Editors' Introductory Essay," Qualitative Sociology
7:1 & 2, Spring/Summer 1984, pp. 1-8 (with Shulamit Reinharz).
"The Meaning of Medications: Another Look at Compliance," Social Science and
Medicine 20:1, 1985, pp. 29-37. (Reprinted in H. Schwartz, Dominant Issues in Medical
Sociology, Second and Third Editions, Random House, 1987, 1993; A. Wertheimer and
M.C. Smith, Pharmacy Practice: Social and Behavioral Aspects, Third Edition, 1988:
P. Conrad and R. Kern, Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, St.
Martin's Press, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013; G. Scambler, Major Themes in
Health and Social Welfare, Routledge, 2004).
"Life Experience and Choice of Research Problem," in B. Hess, E. Markson, P. Stein,
Sociology, Second Edition, Macmillan, 1985.
"Doctors, Information and the Control of Epilepsy: A Patient's Perspective," in Bruce
Herman and Steven Whitman (eds.), Psychopathology in Epilepsy: Social Dimensions,
New York: Oxford University Press (with Joseph W. Schneider), 1986, pp. 69-89.
"Problems in Health Care," in George Ritzer, Social Problems, Second Edition, New
York: Random House, 1986, pp. 415-460.
"The Myth of Cutthroats Among Premedical Students: The Role of Stereotypes in
Justifying Failure and Success," Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 27:2, 1986,
pp.150-160.
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"The Social Meaning of AIDS," Social Policy, Summer 1986, pp. 51-56. (Reprinted in J.
Ballentine, Sociological Footprints, Wadsworth, 1987; P. Brown, Perspectives in
Medical Sociology, Dorsey, 1989; Brandeis Review, V. 7, No. 2, Winter 1988; D.S.
Eitzen, Society's Problems: Sources and Consequences, Allyn and Bacon; 1989; J.
Heeren, Sociology: Window on Society, First and Second Editions, Roxbury Pub., 1989,
1992; R.A. Weyer, Readings in Sociology, Allyn and Bacon, 1989; P. Conrad and R.
Kern, Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, St. Martin's Press, 1990; R.
Feigelman, Readings on Social Problems, Holt, 1990; R. Rist, Policy Issues for the
1990s, Transaction Press, 1990; R. Wade and M.Shwayder-Hughes, Understanding
Sociology: A Contemporary Reader, Kendall/Hunt, 1992; C. Clark and H. Robbey Social
Interaction, 4th Edition, St. Martin's, 1992; N.J. Herman, Introduction to Social
Psychology, General Hall, 1993; H. Lena, Readings in Sociology, McGraw-Hill, 1993).
"The Experience of Illness: Recent and New Directions," in Julius A. Roth and Peter
Conrad (eds.), Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 6 (The Experience and
Management of Chronic Illness), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1987, pp. 1-33.
"Who Comes to Worksite Wellness Programs? A Preliminary Review, "Journal of
Occupational Medicine, 29:4, 1987, pp. 317-20.
"Wellness in the Workplace: Potentials and Pitfalls of Worksite Health Promotion,"
Milbank Quarterly 65:2, 1987, pp. 255-75. (Excerpted in Medical Benefits, May 1987;
Reprinted in P. Conrad and R. Kern, Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical
Perspectives, St. Martin's Press, 1990,1994, 1997, 2001, 2005; H. Schwartz, Dominant
Issues in Medical Sociology, 3d Edition, Macmillan, 1993; K. Charmaz and D. Paterniti,
Health, Healing and Illness, Roxbury, 1998; summarized and translated to Hungarian,
1989).
"The Noncompliant Patient in Search of Autonomy," Hastings Center Report, 17:4,
August 1987, pp. 15-17.
"American Circumcision Practices and Social Reality: Persistence in the Face of Change"
(with J. Brodbar-Nemzer and S. Tenenbaum), Sociology and Social Research, 71:4,
1987, pp. 275-79.
"Health and Fitness at Work: A Participants' Perspective," Social Science and Medicine,
26:5, 1988, pp. 545-50.
"Worksite Health Promotion: The Social Context," Social Science and Medicine, 26: 5,
1988, pp. 485-89.
"Qualitative Sociology in International Perspective: An Editor's Introductory Essay,"
Qualitative Sociology, 11: 1 & 2, pp. 8-12, 1988 (with Shulamit Reinharz).
"Moving Health Promotion Further Upstream," Fitness in Business, 2: 5, 1988, pp. 16468.
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"Learning to Doctor: Reflections on Recent Accounts of the Medical School Years,"
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 29:5, 1988, 323-32. (Reprinted in C. Kart and H.
Schwartz, Dominant Issues in Medical Sociology, 3rd. ed., Macmillan, 1994; W.
Cockerham, Sociology of Medicine, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995; J. Henslin, Down to
Earth Sociology, Free Press, 5th edition, 1995; William Cockerham, Readings in Medical
Sociology, Prentice Hall, 1997).
"Qualitative Research on Chronic Illness: A Commentary on Method and Conceptual
Development," Social Science and Medicine, 30:11, 1990, 1257-63.
"Use of Motorcycle Helmets in Yogyakarta: Some Observations and Comments,"
Buletin Penelitian Kesehatan (Bulletin of Health Studies), 1989, 17:4, 39-49.
"The New Corporate Health Ethic: Lifestyle and the Social Control of Work," (with
Diana Chapman Walsh), International Journal of Health Services, 1992, 22:89-111.
"Medicalization and Social Control," Annual Review of Sociology, 1992, 18: 209-32.
(Reprinted in P. Brown, Perspectives in Medical Sociology, 2nd and 3d editions, 1996,
2000; L. Bouchard and D. Cohen, Medicalisation et Controle Social [translated into
French], 1995).
"Deviance and Medicalization: A Decade Later," (with Joseph W. Schneider), in
Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness, Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1992, pp. 277-92.
"Epilepsy in Indonesia: Notes from Development," Central Issues in Anthropology,
1992, X: 94-102.
"Rationing Medical Care: A Sociological Reflection," (with Phil Brown), Research in
the Sociology of Health Care, Vol, 10, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1993, pp. 3-32.
(Reprinted in K. Charmaz and D. Paterniti, Health, Healing and Illness, Roxbury, 1998).
"Urgency and Utilization of Emergency Medical Services in Urban Indonesia: A Report
and Reflection," in Peter Conrad and Eugene B. Gallagher (eds.), Health and Health
Care in Developing Countries, Temple University Press, 1993, pp. 57-77.
"Medicalization," Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Pergamon Press, 1994.
"Wellness as Virtue: Morality and the Pursuit of Health," Culture, Medicine and
Psychiatry, 1994, 18:385-401.
"How Ethnography Can Help Bioethics," Bulletin of Medical Ethics, May 1994, 98:1318.
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"The Relative Effects of Perceived Personal Control and Responsibility on Health-Based
Behaviors in Young and Middle-Aged Adults," (with Mauri A. Ziff and Margie E.
Lachman.) Health Education Quarterly, 1995, 22:127-42.
"Studying Emergency Medicine in Indonesia," in B. Hess, L. Markson, P. Stein,
Sociology, Fifth Edition, 1996, p. 429.
"Medicalization and the Pharmacological Treatment of Blood Pressure," (with Ichiro
Kawachi) in P. Davis (ed.) Contested Terrain: Pharmaceuticals in Society, Oxford
University Press, 1996, pp. 26-41.
"Helmets, Injuries and Cultural Definitions: Motorcycle Injury in Urban Indonesia,"
(with Y.S. Bradshaw, R. Lamsudin and N. Kasniah.) Accident Analysis and Prevention,
1996, 28:193-200.
"Has the Gene for Alcoholism Been Discovered Three Times Since 1980? A News
Media Analysis," (with Dana Weinberg), Perspectives on Social Problems, Volume 8.
Greenwich, CT, JAI Press, 1996, pp. 3-24.
"State Level Clustering of Safety Measures and Its Relationship to Injury Mortality,"
(with Phil Brown, Nichole Bell, Jonathan Howland and Marsha Lang), International
Journal of Health Services, 1997, 27:347-57.
"Public Eyes and Private Genes: Historic Frames, News Constructions and Social
Problems" (1996 SSSP Presidential Address). Social Problems, 1997, 44:101-116.
(Reprinted in B. Davey, A. Gray, and C. Seale (eds.), Health and Disease, 3d edition,
Open University Press, 2002)
"It's Boring: Notes on the Meanings of Boredom in Everyday Life." Qualitative
Sociology, 1997, 20:463-73. (Reprinted in B. Glassner and R. Schwartz, Sociology and
Everyday Life, Sage, 1999).
"Anselm Strauss and the Sociological Study of Chronic Illness." (with Mike Bury),
Sociology of Health and Illness, 1997, 19:373-76.
"Parallel Play in Medical Sociology and Medical Anthropology." The American
Sociologist, 1997, 28:85-95.
"Why Bioethics Needs Sociology" (with Raymond DeVries). In R. DeVries and J.
Subedi; (eds.), Bioethics and Society: Sociological Investigations of the Enterprise of
Bioethics, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.
“A Mirage of Genes.” Sociology of Health and Illness, 1999, 21: 228-41. (Reprinted in
P. Conrad, Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, 2001, 2005, 2009,
2013; S. Nettleton and Gustafsson, Sociology of Health and Illness: A Reader, Polity
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Press, 2003; G. Scambler, Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare, Routledge,
2004).
“Sociological Perspectives on the New Genetics: An Overview” (with J. Gabe), In
Sociologcal Perspectives on the New Genetics. London: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 1-10.
“Genetic Imaginations.” Society, November/December 1999, pp. 99-102.
“The Uses of Expertise: Sources, Quotes, and Voice in the Reporting of Genetics in the
News.” Public Understanding of Science, 1999, 8: 285-302.
“Medicalization, Genetics and Human Problems.” In C.Bird, P. Conrad and A. Fremont
(eds.), Handbook of Medical Sociology, Fifth Edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2000, pp. 322-33.
“Medical Sociology at the Millennium” (with C. Bird and A. Fremont). In C.Bird, P.
Conrad and A. Fremont (eds.), Handbook of Medical Sociology, Fifth Edition,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000, pp. 1-10.
“Forward” to Robert Bartholomew, Exotic Deviance: Medicalizing Cultural Idioms from
Strangeness to Illness, Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2000.
“From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults: Some Observations on the Expansion of
Medical Categories” (with Deborah Potter). Social Problems 2000, 47: 559-82.
(Reprinted in Conrad and Leiter (eds.), Health and Health Care as Social Problems,
Rowman and Littlefield, 2003; Caplan, McCarty and Sosti (eds.), Health, Disease and
Illness, Georgetown U. Press, 2004; A. Thio and T. Calhoun, Readings in Deviant
Behaivor, 3/ed., Allyn and Bacon, 2004)
“Medicalization of Deviance” (with PJ McGann). Encyclopedia of Crime and Deviant
Behavior. Sage, 2000, pp. 218-22.
"Media Images, Genetics and Culture: Potential Impacts of Reporting Scientific Findings
on Bioethics." In B. Hoffmaster (ed.) Bioethics in Context, Temple University Press,
2001, pp. 90-111.
“Qualitative Health Research.” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral
Sciences. Brunner-Routledge, 2001, Volume 10: 6608-12.
“Constructing the ‘Gay Gene’ in the News: Optimism and Skepticism in the American
and British Press” (with Susan Markens). Health, 2001, 5: 373-400.
“Genetic Optimism: Framing Genes and Mental Illness in the News.” Culture, Medicine
and Psychiatry 25: 225-47, 2001.
“Off Target.” Society, Vol. 38, 5: 33-35, 2001.
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“Genetics and Behavior in the News: Some Dilemmas of a Rising Paradigm.” In The
Double-Edged Helix: Social Dimensions of Genetics in a Diverse Society (edited by
Joseph Alper, Adrienne Asch, John Beckwith, Peter Conrad and Cathy Ard). Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
“Enhancing Biology? Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Augmentation” (with Heather
Jacobson). In Simon J. Williams, Gillian A. Bendelow and Linda Berke (eds.), Debating
Biology: Sociological Reflections on Health Medicine and Society, London: Routledge,
2003. (Reprinted in S. Earle and G. Letherby, The Sociology of Healthcare: A Reader
for Health Professionals, Palgrave McMillan, 2008.)
“Human Growth Hormone and the Temptations of Biomedical Enhancement” (with
Deborah Potter), Sociology of Health and Illness, 26: 184-215, 2004
“Medicalization, Markets and Consumers” (with Valerie Leiter), Journal of Health and
Social Behavior 45 (extra issue): 158-76, 2004.
“Homosexuality and Remedicalization” (with Alison Angell), Society 41 (5): 32-39,
2004.
“Prescribing More Psychotropic Medications for Children: What does the Increase
Mean?” [invited editorial], Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 158: 829-30,
2004.
“The Shifting Engines of Medicalization” (The Leo G. Reader Award lecture), Journal of
Health and Social Behavior 46: 3-12, 2005. (Reprinted in P Brown, Perspectives on
Medical Sociology, Waveland 2008; in P. Conrad, Sociology of Health and Illness:
Critical Perspectives, 8th, 9th ed., 2009, 2013; in T.L. Anderson, Understanding Deviance,
Routledge 2014). (Translated into Japanese and Italian)
“Medicalizing the Aging Male Body: Baldness and Andropause” (with Julia Szymczak)
in Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher Faircloth, Medicalized Masculinities, Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2006.
“Medicalization of Deviance,” (with PJ McGann) Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell,
2006.
“Trends in the use of Psychotropic Medications in Adolescents, 1994-2001,” with Liz
Goodman, Cindy Thomas and Rosemary Casler, Psychiatric Services 57: 63-69, 2006.
“Up, Down and Sideways” (Comment on Frank Furedi). Society 43 (6): 19-20, 2006.
“Comment” [on Shostak and Ottman “Ethical, Legal and Social Dimensions of Epilepsy
Genetics.”] Epilepsia (October 2006).
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“Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.” Encyclopedia of Social Problems.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, (May 2008).
“Eliot Freidson’s Revolution in Medical Sociology.” Health 11: 141-44, 2007.
“Contestation and Medicalization,” with Cheryl Stults. In Pamela Moss and Kathy
Teghtsoonian (eds.) Contesting Illness. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
“From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: DTCA and Medicalization” (with Valerie
Leiter), Sociology of Health and Illness 30: 825-38, 2008. (Featured and summarized in
Society, Nov.-Dec. 2008; Reprinted in Conrad and Leiter, Sociology of Health and
Illness: Critical Perspectives Ninth edition, 2013).
“Sequencing and Its Consequences: Path Dependence and the Relationships between
Genetics and Medicalization” (with Sara Shostak and Allan Horwitz), American Journal
of Sociology: 114 (S1): S287-S316, 2008.
"A Study of the Relational Aspects of the Culture of Academic Medicine," (with Linda
Piloli, Phyllis Carr and Sharon Knight). Academic Medicine: 84: 106-14, January 2009.
“The Culture of Academic Medicine: Faculty Perceptions of the Lack of Alignment
between Individual and Institutional Values (with Linda Pololi, David Kern, Phyllis Carr,
and Sharon Knight). Journal of General Internal Medicine 24: 1289-95, 2009.
"Collaborating in Academic Medicine: Reflections on Gender and Advancement" (with
Phyllis Carr, Sharon Knight and Linda Piloli). Academic Medicine 84: 1447-53, 2009
“Medicalization and Risk Scares: The Case of Menopause and HRT,” (with Cheryl
Stults), Pp. 120-42 in Donald Light (ed.) The Risks of Prescription Drugs, (Columbia
University Press, 2010).
“Internet and the Experience of Illness,” (with Cheryl Stults), Pp. 179-91 in Chloe Bird,
Peter Conrad, Allen Fremont, Stefan Timmermans (eds.) Handbook of Medical
Sociology, sixth edition, Vanderbilt University Press, 2010.
“Hierarchy as a Barrier to Advancement for Women in Academic Medicine” (with
Phyllis Carr, Sharon Knight, Megan Renfrew, Mary Dunn and Linda Pololi). Journal of
Women’s Health 19 (4): 799-805 (2010).
“The Internet and Medicalization: Reshaping the Global Body and Illness” (with Ashley
Rondini) Pp. 107-120 in Elizabeth Ettorre (ed)., Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of
Health, Ashgate, 2010.
‘Estimating the Costs of Medicalization” (with Thomas Mackie and Ateev Mehrotra)
Social Science and Medicine 70 (2010): 1943-47.
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“The Social Construction of Illness: Key Insights and Policy Implications” (with Kristin
Barker) Journal of Health and Social Behavior (2010) 51 (S): 567-79. (Translated into
Portuguese, 2012; Most downloaded article from JHSB June 2011-June 2012 with total
of 21,621 downloads).
“The Medicalization of Chronic Pain” (with Vanessa Lopes Munoz), Tidsskrift for
Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund (Journal for Research on Sickness and Society) 13: 1324 (a special issue of a Danish journal on chronic pain.), 2010.
“Opiate Addiction: A Revival of Medical Involvement” (with Thomas Mackie) in
Geoffrey Hunt, Maitena Milhet and Henri Bergeron (eds.) Drugs and Cultures:
Knowledge, Consumption and Policy, Ashgate, 2011.
“Medicalization.” In Eric Parens and Josephine Johnston, “Troubled Children:
Diagnosing, Treating and Attending to Context,” Special Report, Hastings Center Report
41, no. 2 (2011): 13.
“Forward” to Annemarie Jutel, Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary
Society. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
“The Medicalization of Mental Disorder” (with Caitlin Slodden). In second edition of C.
Aneshensal and J. Phelan, Handbook of Sociology of Mental Health, Springer, 2012.
“Marketing of Neuropsychiatric Illness and Enhancement,” (with Allan V. Horwitz), in
A. Chattergee and M. Farah (eds.), Neuroethics in Practice, Oxford University Press,
2013.
“Medicalization.” (with Miranda Waggoner). Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health and
Society, forthcoming.
“Medicalization: Changing Contours, Characteristics and Contexts.” William
Cockerham (ed). Health Sociology on the Move: New Directions in Theory. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2013.
“Medicalization: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives” (with Meredith
Bergey). International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, second edition,
Elsevier, pp. 105-109, 2015.
“Autism, the Internet and Medicalization” (with Catherine Tan) Pp. 111-131 in Willy
Viehoever and Peter Wehling (eds.) ThePublicShapingofMedicalResearch:Patient
Associations,HealthMovementsandBiomedicine.Routledge,2014.
“MentalIllnessasaFormofDeviance:HistoricalNotesandContemporary
Directions”(withJuliaBandini)inErichGoode(ed.)WileyHandbookonDeviance.
JohnWiley,forthcoming
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“The Impending Globalization of ADHD: Notes on the Expansion and Growth of a
Medicalized Disorder” (with Meredith Bergey). Social Science and Medicine 122: 3143, 2014.
Forward,SusanE.BellandAnneE.Figert,Reimagining(Bio)medicalization,
Pharmaceuticals,andGenetics:OldCritiquesandNewEngagements.Routledge,
2015.
“The Internet and Illness: From Private to Public Experience” with Julia Bandini and
Alexandria Vasquez for HEALTH: An interdisciplinary journal,for the social study of
health, illness and medicine 20 (1) 21-32, 2016.
“AnticipatoryMedicalization:Predisposition,Prediction,andtheExpansionof
MedicalConditions”(withMirandaWaggoner).JournalofPredictive,Preventiveand
PersonalizedMedicine,forthcoming
“Medicalization:TheConcept.”InJ.MichaelRyan(ed.)EssentialConceptsin
Sociology.Wiley-Blackwell,forthcoming(2017)
“RememberingJosephR.Gusfield.”Forthcoming(March2017).TheAmerican
Sociologist.
Other Publications:
Exchange with Denhoff. Behavior Today 8:12, March 28, 1977. "What's All the Fuss About Metco?" Lincoln Review, 15 (1): 11-12, January-February 1991.
"Disability Need Not Be So Negative" ("Tone Deaf or Musically Disabled?"), Boston Sunday Globe, January 3, 1993, pp. 29, 32. (Reprinted in Lincoln Review 17 (5): 17-19, September-October 1993).
"Pursuit of Wellness." Brandeis Review, Summer 1994, 14 (4) : 20-25.
"Obituary for Irving Kenneth Zola" (With Susan Bell and Phil Brown), Footnotes,
March 1995; longer version, Social Science and Medicine, 1995, 41 (2): v-vi.
"Balancing Demands on Conservation Land." Lincoln Review 19(6):11 November-
December 1995.
"A Don's Diary (a Torrent of Gene News)." Times Higher Education Supplement, March 21, 1997.
"A Sabbatical in London and Beyond." Med Soc News, Vol 23, No. 2, 1997, pp. 30-32.
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"Hold the Front Page." New Scientist, July 12, 1997, p.47.
“The Fate of Genetic Optimism: Framing Behavior and Genetics in the News” (abstract) in “A Decade of ELSI Research”, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Special
Supplement, Summer 2001, 29: 2.
“An Appreciation of Julius A. Roth,” Medical Sociology Newsletter, 2004.
“Medicalizing Life,” Inquiry (Brandeis University), Vol. 2, No. 1, 2008, p. 13.
“What is a ‘disease’? Boston Globe, G3, March 22, 2010 (interview) “The Height of Popularity,” Brandeis Magazine, Fall 2010
“Phil Brown 2012 Reeder Award Winner” Medical Sociology Newsletter, Vol. 28, Pp. 1-2, 2012
Book Reviews:
"Review of B. Zablocki, The Joyful Community," Social Forces, December 1972.
"Review of J.M. Whitworth, God's Blueprints," Contemporary Sociology, September 1976.
"Review of E. Friedson, Doctoring Together," Sociology: Reviews of New Books, May-
June 1976.
"Review of C. Frazier, Theoretical Approaches to Deviance: An Evaluation," Sociology: Reviews of New Books, July 1976.
"Review of P. Abrams and A. McCulloch, Communes, Sociology and Society,"
Sociology: Reviews of New Books, November-December 1976
"Review of A. Dean, A.M. Kraft, and B. Pepper, The Social Setting of Mental Health,"
Sociology: Reviews of New Books, January-February 1977.
"Review of W.M. Kephart, Extraordinary Groups: The Sociology of Unconventional
Lifestyles," Sociology: Reviews of New Books, May-June 1977.
"Review of W.E. Barton and C.J. Sanborn, An Assessment of the Community Mental
Health Movement," Sociology: Reviews of New Books, November-December, 1977
"Review of R. Hawkins and G. Tiedeman, The Creation of Deviance," Contemporary
Sociology, March 1978.
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"Review of A. Thio, Deviant Behavior," Sociology: Reviews of New Books, September-
October 1978.
"Review of C. Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World," Humanity and Society, November 1978.
"Review of S. Sontag, Illness as Metaphor," Humanity and Society, February 1979.
"Review of R.L. Muncy, Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities," Alternative
Lifestyles, February 1979.
"Review of H. Schwartz and C. Kart, Dominant Issues in Medical Sociology," Social
Science and Medicine, March 1979.
"Review of F. Wolinsky, Sociology of Health," Sociology: Reviews of New Books,
March-April 1981.
"Review of R.H. Coombs, Mastering Medicine," Sociology and Social Research, July 1979.
"Review of H. Schwartz and J. Jacobs, Qualitative Sociology," Sociology: Reviews of
New Books, March-April 1980.
"Review of E. Guba and Y.S. Lincoln, Effective Evaluation," Sociology: Reviews of New Books, March-April 1982.
"Review of A. Scull, Madhouses, Mad-doctors and Madmen," Contemporary Sociology,
December 1982.
"Review of A. Horowitz, Social Control of Mental Illness," Social Forces, March 1983.
"Review of P. Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine," Qualitative
Sociology, Winter 1984.
"Review (Classics Revisited) of F. Davis, Passage Through Crisis," Disability and Chronic Disease Quarterly, Summer 1984.
"Review (Classics Revisited) of A. Strauss et al., Chronic Illness and the Quality of Life
(2nd edition)," Disability and Chronic Disease Quarterly, Spring 1985.
"Review of Philip R. Lee (ed.), Risk and the Health of the Public," Disability and Chronic Disease Quarterly, Summer 1985.
"Review of Anselm Strauss et al., The Social Organization of Medical Work," Science,
August 30, 1985.
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"Review of Julio L. Ruffini (ed.), Alternative Medicines," Disability Studies Quarterly,
Summer 1986.
"Review of J. Cornwell, Hard-Earned Lives," Disability Studies Quarterly, Fall 1986.
"Review of S. Estroff, Making it Crazy," Disability Studies Quarterly, Fall 1986.
"Review of E. Shorter, Bedside Manners," Contemporary Sociology, May 1987.
"Review of R. Fitzpatrick et al., Experience of Illness," Social Science and Medicine,
1987.
"Review of A. Plough, Borrowed Time: Artificial Organs and the Politics of Extending Lives," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Winter 1987.
"Review of J. Carrier, Learning Disability: Social Class and the Construction of
Inequality in American Education," Disability Studies Quarterly, Winter 1988.
"Review of I. Robinson, Multiple Sclerosis," Disability Studies Quarterly, Spring 1989.
"Review of H. Brody, Stories of Sickness," Disability Studies Quarterly, Spring 1989.
"Review of M. Calnan, Health and Illness: The Lay Perspective," Disability Studies
Quarterly, Spring 1989.
"Review of C. Zeichner, Modern and Traditional Health Care in Developing Countries,"
Disability Studies Quarterly, Winter 1990.
"Review of Health Affairs: Special Issue on Promoting Health," Disability Studies
Quarterly, Summer, 1991.
"Review of C. Perrow and M. Guillan, The AIDS Disaster, and D. Nelkin, D.P. Willis
and S.V. Parris, A Disease of Society," Science, May 1991.
"Review of S Lyng, Holistic Health and Biomedical Medicine," Contemporary
Sociology, July 1991.
"Review of T. Duster, Backdoor to Eugenics," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Spring 1992.
"Review of P.E.S. Freund and M. McGuire, Health, Illness and the Social Body: A
Critical Sociology," Disability Studies Quarterly, Spring 1992.
"Review of K. Charmaz, Good Days," Disability Studies Quarterly, Spring 1992.
"Review of C.E. Rosenberg and J. Golden, Framing Disease," Science, October 1992.
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"Review of D.J. Kevles and L. Hood, Code of Codes," Disability Studies Quarterly,
Summer 1993.
"Review of C. Bosk All God's Mistakes," Hastings Center Report, July-August 1993.
"Review of M. Miringoff, Social Costs of Genetic Welfare, and D.J. Kevles and L. Hood, Code of Codes," Genewatch, Summer 1993.
"Review of T. Wilkie, Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and Its
Implications," Disability Studies Quarterly, Winter 1994.
"Review of Nelkin and Lindee, The DNA Mystique," Contemporary Sociology, January 1996.
"Review of N. Denzin and Y. Lincoln, Handbook of Qualitative Research," Qualitative
Sociology, Winter 1995.
"Review of P. Kitcher, The Lives to Come; K.A. Drilca, Double-Edged Sword, and M.J. Reiss and R. Straughan, Improving Nature?" Science, November 1996.
"Review of M.S. Pernick, The Black Stork," Public Understanding of Science,July 1997. “Review of Kroll-Smith and Floyd, Bodies in Protest,” Contemporary Sociology, March 1998.
“Review of M. Bury, Health and Illness in a Changing Society,” Contemporary
Sociology, September 1998.
“Review of A. Peterson and R. Bunton, The New Genetics and the Public’s Health,”
Contemporary Sociology, January 2003.
“Review of A. Horwitz, Creating Mental Illness, Sociology of Health and Illness, March 2004.
“Review of D. Armstrong, A New History of Identity,” Bulletin of the History of
Medince, Winter 2004.
“Review of C. Malacrida, Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals and Attention Deficit
Disorder,” Health, Winter 2004.
“Review of C. Bosk, Forgive and Remember, second edition,” Social Forces, September 2004.
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“Review of S. Rothman and D. Rothman, The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and
Perils of Medical Enhancement,” Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA),
2004.
“Review of R. Stivers, Shades of Loneliness” Contemporary Sociology, March 2005.
“Review of G. Weiss, Grassroots Medicine: The Story of America’s Free Health
Clinics” Contemporary Sociology, 2008.
“Pills and the Pursuit of Happiness and Normalcy.’ Review Essay on D. Herzberg, Happy
Pills: From Miltown to Prozac and S. Cohen and C. Cosgrove, Normal at Any Cost: Tall
Girls, Short Boys and the Medical Industry’s Quest to Manipulate Height” Contexts,
Spring 2010.
“’The Changing Social Reality of ADHD.’ Review Essay on R. Mayes et al Medicating
Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health and S. Timini and J. Leo (eds.) Rethinking
ADHD: From Brain to Culture.” Contemporary Sociology, September 2010.
“Review of A. Tone, The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with
Tranquilizers” Contemporary Sociology, March 2011.
Articles and Chapters about Peter Conrad and his work
Elianne Riska: 2010: Medikalisaatio: Peter Conrad. InYhteiskunta ja terveys. Klassisia
teoreettisia näkökulmia, toim. Ulla Ashorn, Lea Henriksson, Juhani Lehto & Paula
Nieminen. Gaudeamus: Helsinki, pp. 204-214
Graham Scambler. 2014. “Medical Sociology in the Twenty-first Century: Eight Key
Books.” Review essay in Contemporary Sociology 43; 155-59 (includes The
Medicalization of Society as one of the eight.)
Simon Williams and John Gabe. 2014. “Peter Conrad: The Medicalization of Society”
In Fran Collyer (ed.), ThePalgraveHandbookofSocialTheoryinHealth,Illnessand
Medicine,Basingstoke:PalgraveMacmillanPublishing,chapter39.
Unpublished Papers:
"Utopian Structures: Symbiosis and Informal Structure in an Urban Communal
Settlement," unpublished Master's Paper, Northeastern University, 1969.
"Toward a Theory of the Medicalization of Deviance," paper presented at meeting of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 1976.
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"Soviet Dissidents, Ideological Deviance and Mental Hospitalization," paper presented at
meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, April 1977.
"The Politics of Deviance Designations," paper presented at the meetings of Midwest
Sociological Society, April 1978 (with Joseph W. Schneider).
"Becoming a Member of a Cooperative Household," paper presented at Conference on
Utopias and Communes, Omaha, Nebraska, October 1978.
"Photographs in Introductory Textbooks: An Analysis of Race, Sex and Age," (with
Carol P. Pitts and P. Michele Tickner).
"Beyond Healthy Habits: Society and the Pursuit of Prevention," paper presented at
meetings of Eastern Sociological Society, 1981 (with Lynn Schlesinger).
"Toward an Interactionist Sociology of Illness: Problems of Theory and Method," paper
presented at meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, April 1982.
"Cures and Conditions: Technology and the Medicalization of Deviance," paper
presented at meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 1982.
"Conceptualizing Illness Experience," paper presented at the Conference on
Anthropology and Health (Dubrovnik) and the meetings of the Society for the Study of
Social Problems, August 1984.
"Who Comes to Wellness Programs? A Comparison of Members, Dropouts and
Nonmembers," paper presented at conference on Wellness in the Workplace, Norfolk,
VA, April 1985.
"The Experience of Illness: Problems and Prospects of Conceptualization," paper
presented at meetings of the British Medical Anthropological Society, July 1986.
"The Rise of Worksite Health Promotion: Work, Leisure and Wellness Programs," paper
presented at meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 1987.
"Health and Wealth; Notes on the Rise of Worksite Health Promotion Programs," paper
presented at Wellness in the Workplace Conference, Baltimore, MD, April 1988.
"From Sick Role to Illness Experience," paper presented at the meetings of the American
Sociological Association, August 1988.
"Rationing and the Dilemmas of Medical Care," Brieflet written for Brandeis National
Women's Committee, 1989.
"The Context of the Experience of Chronic Illness," paper written for the Hastings Center
for the Study of Bioethics, 1989.
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"The Social Reaction to AIDS as a Social Problem," prepared for ASA conference on
"AIDS: Toward a Sociological Agenda," Miami, Florida, May 1989.
"Social Aspects of Epilepsy in Indonesia: Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation,"
report submitted to World Rehabilitation Foundation, 1990.
"Yogyakarta Emergency Medical Services Study: Preliminary Findings," paper
presented to Clinical Epidemiology Unit (Yogyakarta) and WHO Field Epidemiology
Training Program (Jakarta), June 1990.
"Consumers and Effectiveness in Health Care," paper presented at conference to Develop
Research Agenda for Effectiveness-Outcomes Research, Alexandria, Virginia, April 1416, 1991.
"Helmets, Injuries and Cultural Definitions: The Case of Motorcycles in Urban
Indonesia," paper presented at meetings of Midwest Sociological Society, April 1992.
"Computers and Qualitative Data: Using Notebook II Plus," presented at meetings of
Eastern Sociological Association, April 1993. (with Neil Charney).
"The Pursuit of Wellness," paper presented at meetings of American Sociological
Association, August 1993.
"Emergency Medicine as Community Medicine: Reflecting on Nonurgent Care in
Emergency Departments," paper presented at the meetings of the International
Sociological Association, Bielefeld, Germany, July 1994.
"Genetics and Homosexuality: Contrasting Images in the News," (with Ben Davidson),
paper presented at the meetings for the Society for the Study of Social Problems, August
1995.
"The I.Q. Controversy Revisited: Press Coverage of I.Q., Race and Behavioral Genetics,
1969-1995" (with Nancy Martin), paper presented at the meetings of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems, August 1995.
"Constructing the 'Gay Gene' in the News: Optimism and Skepticism in American,
British and Gay Press," paper presented at the meetings of the Intrernational Sociology
Association, July 1998.
“Genes, Mental Illness and the Media,” paper presented at the meetings of the American
Sociological Association, August 1999.
“Knowledge and Understanding: Lay Perspectives on the New Genetics” (with Emily
Kolker), paper presented at the Meetings of the American Sociological Association,
2000.
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“Toward a Sociology of Human Enhancement,” paper presented at the meetings of the
Eastern Sociological Society, 2001.
“Between Conceptions and Cases,” paper presented at the meetings of the American
Sociological Association, 2002.
“After Demedicalization: Homosexuality and the Potential of Demedicalization” (with
Alison Angell), paper to be presented at the meetings of the American Sociological
Association, 2003.
“The Changing Engines of Medicalization.” Keynote address, BSA Medical Sociology
Conference, 2004.
“The Fate of Genetic Optimism.” PCST-2004, Barcelona, Spain.
“Geneticization and Medicalization.” Conference on Genetics and Social Structure,
Columbia University, March 2006.
“The Internet and Medicalization: Reshaping the Global Body and Illness.” Paper
presented at the meeting of the International Sociological Association, Durban South
Africa, 2006.
“Eliot Freidson’s Revolution in Medical Sociology,” presented at the meetings of the
American Sociological Association, 2006.
“The Growth of ADHD: Notes on the Expansion of a Medicalized Disorder,” presented
at the meetings of the American Sociological Association, 2009.
“The Height of Popularity,” presented at a conference on biomedical enhancement at
University of North Carolina, 2010.
“The Coming Crisis in Medical Sociology,” presented at the meetings of the
International Sociological Association, 2010.
“The Impending Globalization of ADHD” (with Meredith Bergey), presented at the
meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2012,
PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS:
Referee/Reviewer: Social Problems, Qualitative Sociology, Human Organization, Social
Forces, Urban Life, Symbolic Interaction, Deviant Behavior, Social Science and
Medicine, Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science
Journal, Sociological Forum, The American Sociologist, Research in the Sociology of
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Health Care, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Journal of Health Politics,
Policy and Law, Western Journal of Medicine, Journal of Social and Administrative
Pharmacy, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Sociology of Health and Illness,
Qualitative Inquiry, American Sociological Review, Sociological Perspectives,
Sociological Focus, Science Communication, Hastings Center Report, Nature Reviews of
Genetics, Critical Public Health, American Journal of Sociology, Acta Sociologica,
Community Genetics, Contexts, Social Studies of Science, The Milbank Quarterly,
Bioethics ,Biosocieties, Society and Mental Health, Social Psychology Quarterly,
Journal of Aging Studies, Journal of Sociology, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric
Epidemiology, International Journal oof Health Policy and Management,
Review Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1982-1997.
Co-Editor, Qualitative Sociology, 1982-87 (volumes 6-10).
Advisory Editor, Qualitative Sociology, 1988- .
Associate Editor, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1985-87, 2001-04. 2005-08, 2009-2012
Associate Editor, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 1990-94.
Associate Editor, The Sociological Quarterly, 1990-93.
Associate Editor, The American Sociologist, 1995-1998 .
Associate Editor, Sociology of Health and Illness, 1995- .
Associate Editor, Health, 1996- .
Editorial Board, Social Theory and Health, 2003Editorial Board, Society and Mental Health, 2013-15
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Sociological Association, 1968- .
Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1969- .
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1975-95.
Eastern Sociological Society, 1979- .
Society for Medical Anthropology, 1982-98.
International Sociological Association, 1993- .
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Consultant: Channeling Grant: Case Management of the Elderly (Heller School,
Brandeis University), 1982; Epilepsy in the Urban Environment Project (Northwestern
University), 1982; Northeastern University Research and Scholarship Development Fund,
1981, 1985; National Science Foundation, 1987; Canyon Ranch Foundation, 1989-90;
IUC Research Center Project-Indonesia, World Bank XVII, 1989-90; Congressionallysponsored Conference on Effectiveness and Outcomes Research, 1991; Center for Field
Research, 1991; National Science Foundation, 1992, 1993; NIH Review Panel, ELSI of
Human Genome Initiative, 1993-1995. Fulbright UK Review Panel, 1999, Fulbright
Senior Specialist Review Panel, 2001, NIH-ELSI Review Panel, 2003-06. Evaluation
team for Portland State University new Ph.D. program, 2006; Evaluation team for Lehigh
University new Ph.D. program, 2008. Netherlands Scientific Grant Agency, 2015.
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National Institutes of Health: Permanent Member of ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social
Implications of the Human Genome Project) Review Study Section, 2001-2006 (ad hoc
member before and after).
Hastings Center: Core Participant “Pharmacologically Behavioral and Emotional
Disturbances in Children.” 2006-08.
Editorial Consultant: St. Martin's Press, D.C. Health, Methuan Publishing, University
Press of New England, Random House/Knopf, Rutgers University Press, State University
of New York Press, Temple University Press, Allyn and Bacon, Routledge and Kegan
Paul, Cambridge University Press, Prentice-Hall, Wadsworth Publishing, University of
California Press, Aldine, Wayne State University Press (Advisory Editor), Guilford Press,
Yale University Press, McGraw-Hill, Blackwell Publishers, MIT Press, University of
Chicago Press, Routledge, University of North Carolina Press, Harvard University Press,
Princeton University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Organizer: Roundtable Discussion on Medicalization of Deviance, ASA meetings, New
York, August 1976; Session on Medicalization of Deviance, MSS Meetings, April 1977;
"Film and Ethnography," session of SSSP meetings, 1978; "Producing Social Problems
on Film: The Films of Fred Wiseman," session SSSP meetings, 1979; "Can Sociology be
Clinical?" session SSSP meetings, 1980; "Medicalization of Social Problems," session
SSSP meetings, 1981; Personal and Familiar Experience of Illness," session ASA
meetings, 1983; "Computers and Qualitative Data," session ESS meetings, 1984;
"Insider's View of Illness," colloquia session at SSSP meetings, 1984; "Worksite Health
Promotion," session SSSP meetings, 1985; "Social Control in the Work Place: The
Consequences of Worksite Screening," session SSSP meetings, 1987; "Sociology of
Health in America: The State of the Field," session of ASA meetings, 1989. "The Body,
Genetics and Society," session of ESS, 1993. "Sociological Perspectives on the New
Genetics," session at ISA, 1998, “Qualitative Research on the Sociology of Health and
Illness,” session at ASA, 2001, “Medicalization,” session at ISA, 2002; Panel participant
on “Teaching Medical Sociology” at ASA 2001 and 2003; Medicalization and
Globalization, session organized for RC 15, ISA meeting 2014. “Memorial and
Remembrance Session for Joseph Gusfield,” SSSP August 2015.
Conference Organizer: Organized (with M. Bury) “Medical Sociology at the
Millennium: Continunity and Change in Health and Medicine.” International conference
at University of London, Royal Holloway, July 20-23, 1999. (The first joint US-UK
medical sociology conference.) Organizing Committee, Third joint US-UK medical
sociology conference (Simmons College, 2008). Conference Organizing Committee,
Fourth joint US-UK medical sociology conference (Queens University, Belfast), 2012.
Organizing Committee Fifth joint US-UK medical sociology conference (University of
Iceland) 2015.
Conference Organizer (with Sarah Shostak): “Medicalization and the Growth of Health
Care.” Brandeis University, November 2007.
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Panelist: "The Medical Model of Deviance," American Academy of Criminal Justice
Meeting, 1981; "Teaching Medical Sociology Workshop," ASA Meeting, 1983 and 1984;
"New Directions in Medical Sociology," ASA meeting, 1986; NHLBI Conference on
"Methodology Issues in Worksite Health Promotion," 1988, “Neuroscience and the
Human Spirit” (National Press Club), 1998. “Behavioral Genetics in the Media”,
Translating ELSI Conference, Cleveland, OH, 2008.
Invited Lectures: College of Osteopathic Medicine, Iowa Lutheran Hospital, Boston
University Sociology Colloquia, University of Wisconsin Medical Sociology Colloquia,
University of Massachusetts Family Practice Grand Rounds, Boston College Sociology
Fieldwork Colloquia, Boston University School of Public Health, Rutgers University
Mental Health Colloquia, Harvard School of Public Health, Clark University, University
of Florida, New York State Epilepsy Society, Montclair State College (NJ) Honor
Society Lecture, Epilepsy Foundation of America, The Hastings Center for Bioethics,
Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy, American
Society for Law and Medicine, Boston University School of Management, University of
Houston, New England Research Institute. In Indonesia: Neurology Department,
Sardjito General Hospital, Yogyakarta; Workshop on Epilepsy, Yogyakarta; Clinical
Epidemiology Unit, Yogyakarta; Medical Department, Pertimina National Oil Company,
Jakarta; WHO Field Epidemiology Training Program, Jakarta. In Sweden: Karolinska
Institute; University of Linkoping. USAID - Washington, D.C., Brown University,
Bentley College, New England Medical Center, New York University, McMaster
University, University of Amsterdam, Alumni College (Brandeis), Mercer University,
ABFCAS (Montreal), New College and Oriel College - Oxford, Wellness '95 (Society for
Behavioral Medicine), University of Connecticut, Tufts Medical School. In the UK:
BSA Medical Sociology Conference, Welsh Medical Sociology Group, Irish Medical
Sociology Group, Public Understanding of Science Group, London Medical Sociology
Group, University of London - Royal Holloway, University of Nottingham, University of
Salford, Southbank University, University of Cardiff, Guys and St. Thomas' Medical
School, University of Glasgow. University College, Dublin. University of Helsinki, Abo
Akademi University, Institute of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Wellesley College,
Rutgers University, Dowling College, University of Colorado, University of Missouri,
Texas Tech University, Arizona State University, Harvard University, University of
Chicago, Dowling College, University of Michigan, Boston College, University of Utah,
University of Aarhus (Denmark), University of North Carolina, Drugs and Cultures
Conference (Paris), Mass General Hospital (Psychiatry), Medicalization of Education
conference: Dyslexia and ADHD (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Rio de Janeiro State University,
Dept. of Social Medicine, Transylvania University, Holy Cross College, University of
New Mexico. Mass College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Ph.D. Committees outside of Brandeis:
NYU, Boston University (3), Northeastern, Columbia, OISE (Canada), U. of
Linkoping (Sweden), The Fielding Institute, University of Sydney.
Society for the Study of Social Problems:
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Co-Chair, Membership Committee, 1977-78.
Member, Program Committee for Annual meeting, 1979.
Chair, Psychiatric Sociology Division, 1979-81 (Elected).
Member, Elections Committee, 1980-81.
Co-Chair, Program Committee for the Annual Meeting, 1981-82.
Board of Directors, 1984-85 (Elected).
President-Elect and President (Elected), 1994-96.
Publications Committee (Elected), 1999-2002.
Committee on Committees, 2012-2014
American Sociological Association:
Medical Sociology Section, Health Policy Committee, 1982-84.
Medical Sociology Section, Council Member, 1983-85 (Elected).
Medical Sociology Section, Chair-Elect, 1987-88, Chair, 1988-89 (Elected).
Medical Sociology Section, Nominations Committee, 2000-02 (Elected).
Eastern Sociological Society:
Member, Merit Award Committee, 1982-83.
Member, Papers Committee, 1983-84.
Member, Publications Committee, 1986-87.
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction:
Chair, Charles Horton Cooley Award Committee, 1984-85
Vice President, 1987-88 (Elected).
Boston Area Medical Sociologists:
Steering Committee, 1986-89.
Drake University (1975-78):
Chair, Human Subjects Research Review Committee, 1976-78.
Advisor, Alpha Kappa Delta (Sociology Honor Society), 1976-78.
Member, Women's Center Advisory Board, 1977-78.
Graduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, 1976-78,
Chair, 1977-78
Brandeis University:
Department: Grants and Fellowship Committee, 1979-83.
Undergraduate Committee, 1980-93
Graduate Admissions Committee, 1981, 1992, 2011, 2013.
Undergraduate Advising Head, 1981-87.
Coordinator, Celebration of 25th Anniversary of the Brandeis
Sociology Graduate Program, 1986-87.
Chair, Undergraduate Committee, 1987-93, 2003-06
Coordinator, Department Newsletter, 1988-1996, 1998Department Chair, 1993-2002
Chair, 6 search committees, member of 8 more search committees,
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University:
Department, Heller, Mellon/Kay fellow
Human Subjects Research Review Committee, 1981-89.
Board of Premedical Advisors, 1981- .
Committee on Computers in Education, 1984-86.
Brandeis National Women's Committee (lectures), 1988, 1993.
Liaison, Humanities and Medicine Program (with Mt. Sinai
Medical School), 1987-2002. .
Educational Policy Committee, 1991-93.
Curriculum Revision Task Force, Summer 1992.
Provosts Advisory Committee, 1992-93.
Library Benefactors Committee, 1992-97. .
Chair, Cluster Committee, 1993-96. 1997-2000 (co-chair)
Merck Grants Evaluation Committee, 1995-98. .
Faculty in the Field, 1997, 2007
Heller School Methods Evaluation, 1998.
B-2000 Committee, 1998-2000.
Hewlett Interdisciplinary Committee, 1999-2002
Bernstein-Perlmutter Award Committee, 2002
Health Studies Task Force, co-chair, Summer 2002
USEM committee, 2002-08.
Chair, Interdisciplinary Major “Health: Sciences, Society and
Policy,” 2003-13.
Student Advising Advisory Committee, 2007-08.
Diversity Representative for Recruitment Committees, 2004University Budget Committee, 2007-14. (Chair 2008-13 )
Dean’s Search Committee, 2011.
University Advisory Committee 2012-13
Community Activities (selected):
Codman Community Farm, Lincoln, MA, Board of Directors
1987-93.
Eliot Community Mental Health Center, Concord, MA, Board of
Directors, 1987-93.
Townwide Planning Conference, Land Use Task Force, Chair,
Lincoln, MA 1991.
Conservation Commission, Lincoln, MA, Commissioner, 19922003.
Mass Audubon Society, Drumlin Farm, Sanctuary
Committee,2004- .
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Major: Sociology of Deviance**
Medical Sociology**
Sociology of Mental Health
Introductory Sociology
Qualitative Research Methods**
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Other Courses taught:
Social Problems
Aging in Society
Sociology of Sex Roles
Social Psychology
Society and Health Promotion**
Nature, Nurture and Public Policy
Social Problems Theory and Research**
The Medicalization of Society**
Communities
Stigmatized Identities
The Obesity ‘Epidemic’
**Taught graduate seminar as well as undergraduate course.
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
“Medicalization and the End of Suffering”
“Sixth Grade Mis-fits: ADHD, Behavioral Difference and Life Success.”
The Experience and Management of Parkinson’s Disease. References Available Upon Request.
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