Peter Conrad's book, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders, examined several cases of human conditions, once considered normal, now considered medical problems. . Conrad defined this transition from human problems to medically defined, studied, diagnosed, and treated disorders as “medicalization.” Specifically, Conrad discussed certain conditions, such as adult ADHD, as age-related phenomena that have been medicalized. Throughout, Conrad demonstrated how these issues have been medically defined due to the current research and funding structure of medicine in the United States. These newly defined diseases have changed people's perceptions and expectations regarding health and old age, thereby significantly altering society's expectations of medicine and the resulting quality of life. Conrad's ethnography is a good example of the ethnomedical approach to medical anthropology that addressed several health issues prevalent in the United States. He concluded his book by arguing that medicalization serves primarily as a form of social control, solving the problems of individuals and not society. While the book clearly explained a wide range of negative causes and effects of medicalization, Conrad only briefly acknowledged a few examples of successful resistance in his final chapter. In order to empower its readers beyond education, the book should have examined these cases of anti-medicalization to find similarities and deduce productive countermeasures that individuals could follow. Conrad described in detail the history, examples, and influencing factors that favor medicalization, but failed to offer a combative solution to the resulting medicalization problems. In order to......middle of article......ation. Works cited Conrad, Pierre. The medicalization of society: on the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Kleinman, Arthur M. “What Kind of Model for the Anthropology of Medical Systems?” American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 80, no. 3 (September 1978), pp. 661-665. Thoit, Link, Bruce G. and Jo C. Phelan. “Labeling and Stigma.” Handbook of the sociology of mental health. Springer Netherlands, 2013. 525-541.Christine M. Harrington, The Americans with Disabilities Act: The New Definition of Disability Post: Sutton v. United Air Lines, Inc., 84 Mark. L. Rev. 251 (2000).Oliver, Mike. 1996. Understanding disability: from theory to practice. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillian. Conrad, Peter and Joseph W. Schneider. 1992. Deviance and medicalization: from wickedness to illness. St. Louis: Mosby.