Quotes by : Peter Conrad

What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of....

A slow but steady transformation of deviance has taken place in American society. It has not been a change....

Public "facts" are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must....

...[D]eviance is an attributed designation rather than something inherent in individuals...

Reality" is defined not as something that exists "out there" for the scientist or anyone else to discover....

Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially....

[S]ocial change is not clearly linear and rarely totally beneficial or detrimental. Social change nearly....

[T]here are no illnesses in nature, only relationships. There are, of course, naturally occurring events,....

When a theological world view dominated, deviance was sin; when the nation-states emerged from the decay....