Abstract
Books reviewed:
Peter Conrad and Joseph W. Schneider, Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1980,£7.25, xviii+ 311 pp.
Bernard J. Gallagher III, The Sociology of Mental Illness. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980, n.p. given, x+357 pp.
Richard Taylor, Medicine Out of Control The Anatomy of a Malignant Technology. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1979, £4.95 pb, ix+ 278 pp.