Peter Conrad (born 1945, raised in New Rochelle, NY) is an American

medical sociologist Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices ...

who has researched and published on numerous topics including ADHD, the

medicalization Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. Medicalization can be driven by new evid ...

of deviance, the experience of illness, wellness in the workplace,

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in the news, and biomedical enhancements.

Biography

He has been a member of the faculty at

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , ...

since 1979 and since 1993 has been 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, from Northeastern University (1970) and Ph.D. in Sociology from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...

in 1976. Prior to Brandeis, he taught at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts (1971–75) and

Drake University Drake University is a private university in Des Moines, Iowa. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs, including professional programs in business, law, and pharmacy. Drake's law school is among the 25 oldest in the United States. His ...

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(1975–78). 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 has also been a visiting professor at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

Gadjah Mada University Gadjah Mada University ( jv, ꦈꦤꦶꦥ꦳ꦼꦂꦱꦶꦠꦱ꧀ꦓꦗꦃꦩꦢ; id, Universitas Gadjah Mada, abbreviated as UGM) is a Public university, public research university located in Sleman Regency, Sleman, Yogyakarta (special region) ...

(

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, and Queen's University Belfast (

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Personal life

He lives in Lincoln, MA with his wife, Dr. Libby Bradshaw. They have two children, Rya (b. 1980) and Jared (b. 1985).

Published works

Conrad is the author of over one hundred articles and chapters and a dozen books, including ''Identifying 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) and ''The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders'' (2007). He has also edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including ''Handbook of Medical Sociology'', 5th edition (2000) and eight editions of ''Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives'' (1981–2009), a widely used text for undergraduates.

Awards

He has received numerous academic honors including the Charles Horton Cooley Award (1981) for Deviance and Medicalization, a Distinguished Fulbright Fellowship (1997), the Leo G. Reeder Award (2004) from the American 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."

References

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