Peter Conrad

Peter Conrad is the Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences and Chair of the Health: Science, Society and Policy program at Brandeis University. The author of numerous books and journal articles on the sociology of health and illness, Dr. Conrad received the Lee Founder's Award from the Society for Study of Social Problems in 2007 and Leo G. Reeder Award from the American Sociological Association in 2004 for his distinguished contributions to medical sociology. His works include the award-winning Deviance and Medicalization (written with J.W. Schneider), the coedited Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition, and The Medicalization of Society.