Images of issues  typifying contemporary social problems 
edited by Joel Best. 
 - New York  Aldine de Gruyter  c1989. 
 - xxii, 257 p.  ill.  24 cm. 
 - [Social problems and social issues] .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Horror stories and the construction of child abuse / John M. Johnson -- Dark figures and child victims : statistical claims about missing children / Joel Best -- AIDS and the press : the creation and transformation of a social problem / Edward Albert -- Research rhetoric and the social construction of elder abuse / Eleen A. Baumann -- Learning disabilities, dyslexia, and the medicalization of the classroom / Gerald M. Erchak and Richard Rosenfeld -- The social construction of infertility : from private matter to social concern / Shirley A. Scritchfield -- The crack attack : politics and media in America's latest drug scare / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Popular music as a social problem : a social history of claims against popular music / Herman Gray. The suprising resurgence of the smoking problem / Ronald J. Troyer -- Lost and found : the drunk-driving problem in Finland / H. Laurence Ross -- "Violence" is "violence" ... or is it? : the social construction of "wife abuse" and public policy / Donileen R. Loseke -- Urine testing : the battle for privatized social control during the 1986 war on drugs / William J. Staudenmeier, Jr. -- "A greater threat than the Soviet Union" : Mexican immigration as a social problem / Loy Bilderback -- Afterword : extending the constructionist perspective : a conclusion and an introduction. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0202303527 0202303535 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>89007027  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social problems.<br/>Sociology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN28  / .I46 1989 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>361.1