Medicating Children. SDHD and Pediatric Mental Health
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Author(s): R. Mayes, C. Bagwell and J. Erkulwater
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674031630
Format: hardback
352pp
Price: £29.95, $39.95, €36
Review Date: 12 January 2009
Review: This book aims to explain how and why ADHD and stimulants have evolved over the years. It also illustrates, as a case study, the larger changes associated with how mental disorders have been defined and treated over the last three decades. ADHD and stimulants are one of the most striking and controversial examples of this. There are chapters on: An introduction to ADHD; A survey of the evolution of ADHD and pediatric stimulant use; The transformation of mental disorders in the 1980s; ADHD and the politics of children’s disability policy; The backlash against ADHD and stimulants; Current questions about stimulant treatment for ADHD; and a Conclusion.