Rethinking ADHD : from brain to culture /

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Imprint:	Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Description:	xiv, 418 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Attention-deficit-disordered children. Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity. Attitude of Health Personnel. Child. Culture. Attention-deficit-disordered children. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7729924

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Other authors / contributors:	Timimi, Sami. Leo, Jonathan.
ISBN:	9780230507128 (pbk.) 0230507123 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This title brings together a selection of international critiques on the role of ADHD in our society, looking at how diagnoses have increased and the reasons behind this. Topics range from genetics to social culture, offering a comprehensive overview of this area. In the past decade, there have been an increasing number of authors who have written about ADHD from a critical perspective. These critiques have ranged from questioning the existence of the disorder and the way it is currently conceptualized in mainstream medicine to the safety and efficacy of popular drug treatment regimes for ADHD. However, each of these critical authors have focused on their own particular area of interest, be this culture, genetics, the influence of drug company marketing, the effects of medication, particular treatment regimes, and so on. This book brings together a variety of critical perspectives, with each contribution dealing with a particular issue from culture to genetics and drug companies to nutrition.
Other form:	Online version: Rethinking ADHD. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Table of Contents:

List of Figures and Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. ADHD and the Medical Model
1. ADHD: What Do We Really Know?
2. ADHD and Genetics: A Consensus Reconsidered
3. A Critical Review of ADHD Neuroimaging Research
Part II. ADHD and Culture
4. Why Diagnosis of ADHD has Increased so Rapidly in the West: A Cultural Perspective
5. Clinical Psychology and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
6. ADHD in Australia: The Emergence of Globalization
7. ADHD and Globalization
8. Social Deprivation or Brain Dysfunction? Data and the Discourse of ADHD in Britain and North America
Part III. ADHD Drug Therapies
9. The Case against Stimulants
10. The Manipulation of Data and Attitudes about ADHD: A Study of Consumer Advertisements
11. The Deficiencies of Drug Treatment Research: The Case of Strattera™
12. The Role of Diet and Nutrition in ADHD
Part IV. Alternative Paradigms for ADHD
13. Mind Magic
14. ADHD and Other Sins of Our Children
15. Canaries in the Coal Mine
16. 'Good' Science, Expectations, Villains, and Hope
Index

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