{"id":266,"date":"2010-08-02T01:06:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T06:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=266"},"modified":"2010-08-02T01:06:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T06:06:32","slug":"peter-conrad-on-the-medicalization-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2010\/08\/02\/peter-conrad-on-the-medicalization-of-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Conrad on the Medicalization of Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/\">Office Hours<\/a>! Listen in for an explanation behind the name change. (If you&#8217;ve already subscribed to our old contexts.org RSS feed or in iTunes, don&#8217;t worry: you will still get the new episodes. As of right now we&#8217;re still listed as &#8220;Contexts Podcast&#8221; in iTunes, but we&#8217;re working on changing that.)<\/p>\n<p>This episode features a discussion with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/departments\/sociology\/conrad.html\">Peter Conrad<\/a>, author of the Spring 2010 <em>Contexts<\/em> book review, <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/spring-2010\/pills-and-the-pursuit-of-normalcy\/\">Pills and the Pursuit of Normalcy<\/a>, which reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Happy-Pills-America-Miltown-Prozac\/dp\/0801890306\/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1280343568&#038;sr=8-6\">Happy Pills<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Normal-Any-Cost-Industrys-Manipulate\/dp\/B002ECEURG\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1280343742&#038;sr=8-3\">Normal At Any Cost<\/a>. Arturo and Peter start off talking about these books, but the conversation turns into a fascinating, wide-ranging discussion of the medicalization of everything from happiness to height. Other books referenced include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Loss-Sadness-Psychiatry-Transformed-Depressive\/dp\/0195313046\/ref=pd_sim_b_3\">The Loss of Sadness<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Medicalization-Society-Transformation-Conditions-Treatable\/dp\/080188585X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1280343866&#038;sr=8-1\">The Medicalization of Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamill.cla.umn.edu\/mediamill\/download.php.mp3?orig=59442.mp3\">Download Office Hours #1 now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now Office Hours! Listen in for an explanation behind the name change. (If you&#8217;ve already subscribed to our old contexts.org RSS feed or in iTunes, don&#8217;t worry: you will still get the new episodes. As of right now we&#8217;re still listed as &#8220;Contexts Podcast&#8221; in iTunes, but we&#8217;re working on changing that.) This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[15,33],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-culture","tag-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}