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Changing Concepts Of Deviance, Douglas D. Bond
Changing Concepts Of Deviance, Douglas D. Bond
MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly
As I look at the list of distinguished Stoneburner Lecturers, I see I am honored by being the first psychiatrist. This is a tribute to the Department of Psychiatry. In thinking about this paper, I at first considered giving a kind of history of psychiatry. What seemed to me more interesting, however, was an examination of our whole perspective on deviance, in general, and what we call “illness”—an example of a certain kind of deviance, or, perhaps more accurately, a certain way of looking at deviance.