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Deviance and medicalization : from badness to sickness : with a new afterword by the authors

Peter Conrad (Author), Joseph W. Schneider (Author)
A classic text on deviance is updated and reissued
eBook, English, ©1992
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Temple University Press, Philadelphia, ©1992
1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages)
9781439903490, 9780877229995, 1439903492, 0877229996
630116724
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