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Peter Conrad | |
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| Born | (1945-04-12)12 April 1945 |
| Died | 3 March 2024(2024-03-03) (aged 78) |
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| Alma mater | State University of New York at Buffalo Northeastern University Boston University |
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| Discipline | sociology |
| Sub-discipline | medical sociology |
| Institutions | Brandeis University Suffolk University Drake University |
| Notable works | Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives |
Peter Conrad (1945–2024) was an Americanmedical sociologist[1] who has researched and published on numerous topics includingADHD, themedicalization of deviance, the experience of illness, wellness in the workplace,genetics in the news, and biomedical enhancements.
He was a member of the faculty atBrandeis University since 1979 and after 1993 was the Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences. He received his B.A. in sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo (1967), M.A. fromNortheastern University (1970) and Ph.D. in sociology fromBoston University in 1976. Prior to Brandeis, he taught atSuffolk University inBoston, Massachusetts (1971–1975) andDrake University inDes Moines, Iowa (1975–1978). At Brandeis he served as chair of the Department of Sociology for nine years and since 2002 as chair of the interdisciplinary program "Health: Science, Society and Policy" (HSSP). He also was a visiting professor atNew York University,Gadjah Mada University (Yogyakarta,Indonesia),University of London,Royal Holloway, andQueen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland).
He lived inLincoln, Massachusetts, with his wife, Dr. Libby Bradshaw. They had two children.
Conrad was the author of over one hundred articles and chapters and a dozen books, includingIdentifying Hyperactive Children: The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior (1975, 2004),Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (with Joseph W. Schneider, 1980, 1992),Having Epilepsy: The Experience and Control of Illness (1983) andThe Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (2007). He also edited or co-edited numerous volumes, includingHandbook of Medical Sociology, 5th edition (2000) and eight editions ofSociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives (1981–2009), a widely used text for undergraduates.
He received numerous academic honors including the Charles Horton Cooley Award (1981) for Deviance and Medicalization, a DistinguishedFulbright Fellowship (1997), the Leo G. Reeder Award (2004) from theAmerican Sociological Association for "distinguished contributions to medical sociology", and the 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."
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