Peter Conrad

Weaves ancient myth into modern celebrity and consumerist culture to expose the absurdity and occasional insanity of twenty-first-century society, economy, and politics

Mythomania

On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders

The Medicalization of Society

Mysteries of Cinema

Hvorledes amerikanske og udenlandske forfattere og billedkunstnere er blevet inspireret af byen New York

Views and Versions of New York

The Art of the City

Building on more than three decades of research, Peter Conrad explores the forces behind the trend to treat what were once commonly considered normal human conditions as medical ailments. Using case studies of short stature, social anxiety, "male menopause," erectile dysfunction, adult ADHD, and sexual orientation, he examines the emergence of and changes in medicalization, the consequences of the expanding medical domain, and the implications for health and society. This thought-provoking study offers valuable insights into how medicalization got to this point and where it is heading.

On the Transformation of Human Conditions Into Treatable Disorders

“Offers beautifully written considerations of the masters' affinities and divergences and much else besides.” —Operavore

Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries

Verdi And/Or Wagner

Ilina Singh

Meredith R. Bergey

Angela M. Filipe

Graham, Hiroyuki Ito, Fabian Karsch, Victor Kraak, Claudia Malacrida, Lorenzo Montali, Yasuo Murayama, Sebastián Rojas Navarro, Órla O'Donovan, Francisco Ortega, Mónica Peña Ochoa, Brenton J. Prosser, Vololona Rabeharisoa, Patricio Rojas, Tiffani Semach, Ilina Singh, Rachel Spronk, Junko Teruyama, Masatsugu Tsujii, Fan-Tzu Tseng, Manuel Vallée, Rafaela Zorzanelli

Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries

Global Perspectives on ADHD

Peter Conrad explores the phenomenon of Shakespeare, and assesses Shakespeare's global legacy across every continent and across every genre of the creative arts.

The Theatre of Our World

Shakespeare

Paperback edition of an autobiographical study in which the author describes his search for a home that takes him from the Oxford college where he teaches to London, Lisbon and New York. The author's previous books, which include TDown Home', an evocative account of his childhood in Tasmania, have been critically acclaimed. First published in 1990.

Where I Fell to Earth

Examining ADHD and its social and medical treatments around the world. Attention deficithyperactivity 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 longer the case, and ADHD diagnosis and treatment became an increasingly widespread global phenomenon. As the diagnosis was adopted around the world, the definition and treatment of ADHD often changed in the context of different psychiatric professions, medical systems, and cultures. Global Perspectives on ADHD is the first book to examine how this expanding public health concern is diagnosed and treated in 16 different countries. In some countries, readers learn, over 10% of school-aged children and adolescents are diagnosed with ADHD; in others, that figure is less than 1%. Some countries focus on medicating children with ADHD; others emphasize parent intervention or child therapy. Showing how a medical diagnosis varies across contexts and time periods, this book explains how those distinctions shape medical interventions and guidelines, filling a much-needed gap by examining ADHD on an international scale. Contributors: Madeleine Akrich, Mari J. Armstrong-Hough, Meredith R. Bergey, Eugenia Bianchi, Christian Bröer, Peter Conrad, Claire Edwards, Silvia A. Faraone, Angela M. Filipe, Alessandra Frigerio, Valéria Portugal Gonçalves, Linda J. Graham, Hiroyuki Ito, Fabian Karsch, Victor Kraak, Claudia Malacrida, Lorenzo Montali, Yasuo Murayama, Sebastián Rojas Navarro, Órla O'Donovan, Francisco Ortega, Mónica Peña Ochoa, Brenton J. Prosser, Vololona Rabeharisoa, Patricio Rojas, Tiffani Semach, Ilina Singh, Rachel Spronk, Junko Teruyama, Masatsugu Tsujii, Fan-Tzu Tseng, Manuel Vallée, Rafaela Zorzanelli

wie meidet man falsche Vorbilder?

Behörden lernen von der Wirtschaft

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-153) and index.

The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior Expanded Edition

Identifying Hyperactive Children

A Life in Four Places

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Jura - Strafrecht, Note: Gut (13 Punkte), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Strafrechtliches Institut), Veranstaltung: Seminar 'Neue Rechtsprechung zum Allgemeinen Teil des Strafrechts', 41 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: m Tatzeitraum war der Angeklagte Oberarzt einer urologischen Klinik. Die Patientin S begab sich wegen starker Nierenschmerzen in seine Behandlung. Nachdem mehrere Zysten in der rechten Niere diagnostiziert worden waren, führte der Angeklagte im Dezember 1991/Januar 1992 Nierenzystenpunktionen durch. Eine Nierenfunktionsprüfung fand daraufhin nicht statt. Ein Brief an den Hausarzt von S, in welchem eine solche als weitere Behandlung festgelegt wird, verblieb aus unerklärlichen Gründen beim Angeklagten. Als im Juni 1992 wieder Zysten auftraten, wechselte S zu einem anderen Urologen, welcher eine Nierenfunktionsprüfung durchführen ließ. Diese ergab eine seit längerem bestehende Organschädigung. Im Januar 1993 wurde die Niere deswegen entfernt. Der Rechtsanwalt der S forderte im August 1993 die Krankenakte zur Prüfung von Schadensersatzansprüchen an. Weil der Angeklagte befürchtete, trotz einer aus seiner Sicht "lege artis" durchgeführten Behandlung möglicherweise ursächlich für den Nierenverlust gewesen oder aus anderen Gründen haftbar zu sein, erstellte er einen weiteren Arztbrief, den er auf den 19.11.1991 zurückdatieren ließ. Darin stellte er die von ihm nicht durchgeführte Nierenfunktionsprüfung als eine dem Hausarzt empfohlene Maßnahme zur Weiterbehandlung dar. Er übersandte eine Kopie dieses Briefes an den Rechtsanwalt der S, um sich einer Inanspruchnahme zu entziehen. In dem darauffolgenden Prozess, in welchem der Rechtsanwalt der S Schmerzensgeld in Höhe von 60.000 DM geltend machte, legte der Angeklagte die manipulierten Krankenunterlagen vor und beantragte Klageabweisung.

Der Arztbrieffall (BGH St 42, 268 ff.: Umgekehrter Tatbestands- und Subsumtionsirrtum

Valerie Leiter

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 are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often brings with it serious social problems. The volume is organized into six sections, addressing the medicalization of human problems; the social construction of health problems; social movements; gender; race and class and the provision of health care; and medical accountability. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the depth and richness of a social problems approach to health and medicine, and the critical perspective it brings to our understanding of health and illness in U.S. society.

Health and Health Care as Social Problems

This collection of 49 readings offers an integrated analysis of the most important issues regarding health and health care from a critical and sociological perspective. Substantive introductions provide context for the readings. With ten new and two revised essays, the Seventh Edition contains more coverage of key areas such as alternative medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, and the relationship between healthcare and politics.

The Sociology of Health and Illness

Terence Pepper

Cecil Beaton

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain).

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

Kunstmuseum (Wolfsburg, Allemagne).

Presents a catalog to accompany the exhibition of Cecil Beaton's portraits.

Beaton Portraits

In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, better known as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most dramatically vital and poetically rich account of our human world. Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and performers, Shakespeare's inexhaustible work has remained abreast of contemporary concerns ever since, and it continues to hold a mirror up to the nature of our troubled society and our contradictory selves. The plays accompany us through the ages of mankind, from comic springtime to wintry age, compressing our life in time into the three hours' traffic of the stage; the characters in them have shaped the way we think about politics and war, consciousness and morality, love and death. Peter Conrad examines the world-view of the plays, their generic originality and their astonishingly inventive language. He goes on to explore Shakespeare's global legacy as his characters migrate to every continent and are reinvented by later writers, painters, composers, choreographers and film-makers.

In this dazzling book, the story of the spectacular rise and subsequent waning of American influence across the world since 1945 is told by cultural critic and historian Peter Conrad. Politics, war and commerce form the inevitable backdrop to his tale, but Conrad also treats us to a kaleidoscopic presentation of America's unstoppable creativity: its output of great, good and enjoyably bad art, of jeans and jazz, fast food and fridges, space travel, comic books and motorbikes, technologies and therapies, along with the heroic, erotic or violent cinematic visions that have Americanized even our dreams.

The Americanization of Everywhere

How the World Was Won

A survey of English poetry, fiction, and drama ranges from the 8th century Beowulf to the present

Peter Conrad

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