Summary: We are now Office Hours [1]! Listen in for an explanation behind the name change. (If you've already subscribed to our old contexts.org RSS feed or in iTunes, don't worry: you will still get the new episodes. As of right now we're still listed as "Contexts Podcast" in iTunes, but we're working on changing that.) This episode features a discussion with Peter Conrad [2], author of the Spring 2010 Contexts book review, Pills and the Pursuit of Normalcy [3], which reviews Happy Pills [4] and Normal At Any Cost [5]. 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 The Loss of Sadness [6] and The Medicalization of Society [7]. Download Office Hours #1 now! [8] [1] http://thesocietypages.org/officehours/ [2] http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/sociology/conrad.html [3] http://contexts.org/articles/spring-2010/pills-and-the-pursuit-of-normalcy/ [4] http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Pills-America-Miltown-Prozac/dp/0801890306/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280343568&sr=8-6 [5] http://www.amazon.com/Normal-Any-Cost-Industrys-Manipulate/dp/B002ECEURG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280343742&sr=8-3 [6] http://www.amazon.com/Loss-Sadness-Psychiatry-Transformed-Depressive/dp/0195313046/ref=pd_sim_b_3 [7] http://www.amazon.com/Medicalization-Society-Transformation-Conditions-Treatable/dp/080188585X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280343866&sr=8-1 [8] http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php.mp3?orig=59442.mp3
