Peter Conrad (1945 – 2024, raised in New Rochelle, NY) was an American medical sociologist[1] who has researched and published on numerous topics including ADHD, the medicalization of deviance, the experience of illness, wellness in the workplace, genetics in the news, and biomedical enhancements.

He was a member of the faculty at Brandeis University since 1979 and after 1993 was the Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences.

He lived in Lincoln, MA with his wife, Dr. Libby Bradshaw.

Conrad was the author of over one hundred articles and chapters and a dozen books, including Identifying Hyperactive Children: The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior (1975, 2004), Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness (with Joseph W. Schneider, 1980, 1992), Having Epilepsy: The Experience and Control of Illness (1983) and The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (2007).

He received numerous academic honors including the Charles Horton Cooley Award (1981) for Deviance and Medicalization, a Distinguished Fulbright Fellowship (1997), the Leo G. Reeder Award (2004) from the American Sociological Association for "distinguished contributions to medical sociology", and the Lee Founder's Award (2007) "made in recognition of significant achievements that, over a distinguished career, have demonstrated continuing devotion to the ideals of the founders of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and especially to the humanist tradition of Alfred McClung Lee and Elizabeth Briant Lee."